Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than material force, that thoughts rule the world

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit

I ran and ran and ran every day, and I acquired this sense of determination, this sense of spirit that I would never, never give up, no matter what else happened

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact no matter how suspect is superior to any imaginative exercise no matter how true

The human spirit is not dead. It lives on in secret... It has come to believed that compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind

Deep listening is miraculous for both listener and speaker. When someone receives us with open-hearted, non-judging, intensely interested listening, our spirits expand

For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity