One must also accept that one has 'uncreative' moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

The more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Sometimes I feel that every word spoken and every gesture made merely serve to exacerbate misunderstandings. Then what I would really like is to escape into a great silence and impose that silence on everyone else.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.