If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

I was brought up to believe that how I saw myself was more important than how others saw me.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."