Become simple and live simply, not only within yourself but also in your everyday dealings. Don’t make ripples all around you, don’t try to be interesting, keep your distance, be honest, fight the desire to be thought fascinating by the outside world.

Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

I don't think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.