The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

• It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
• Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
• The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
• The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
• The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
• In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
• We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.
• It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.
• We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true they ruin our dreams.
• Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.