The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self.

In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.

It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

I like neither new clothes nor new kinds of food.

Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.