To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

I know what it's like to see one's mother go through the agony of death and be unable to help; there is no consolation. We all have to bear such heavy burdens, for they are unalterably linked to life.

Be kind to people who are different from you.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

I want to know the thoughts of God. Everything else is just details.