“The very secret of life for me, I believed, was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility.”

“Weather out the storm in the island of tranquility to find inner peace.”

“In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.”

“Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility...without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed, or unhappy because of circumstances.”

“It is my ambition as a Dichter to maintain, for a small number of people who may happen to understand me and be accessible to my influence, a transcendent life, or at least the desire for it, in the midst of the money-and-war-culture which the world has become.”

“I want no secrets or soul-states, nothing ineffable; I am neithervirgin nor priest enough to play with the inner life.”