The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.

Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.