“If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.”

“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”

“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”

“The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today”

“We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.”

“Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.”

“Its as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.”

“People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”

“A man who repents after doing any action, he will certainly become pure one day, that is definite.”

“A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.”

“To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.”