The true definition of madness is repeating the same action, over and over, hoping for a different result.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.

Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.

War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished.

The only sure way to avoid making mistakes is to have no new ideas.

The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.