The failures are not due to any injustice, but to an inner defect. It is always caused by the person himself. Yes, I know, you think you are doing an act of justice. But they will only suck you dry, wear out your energy, nourish themselves on your ideas. After being the most compassionate man in the world, I say to you today: Let the weak ones die, let them commit suicide.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious. One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.

Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.

We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.