Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life.

Modern education is competitive, nationalistic and separative. It has trained the child to regard material values as of major importance, to believe that his nation is also of major importance and superior to other nations and peoples. The general level of world information is high but usually biased, influenced by national prejudices, serving to make us citizens of our nation but not of the world.

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like.

The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.