And now that I don't want to own anything any more and am free, now I suddenly own everything, now my inner riches are immeasurable.

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.

If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed in worldly things, but that even when things go badly for me I shall still find life good and worth living.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

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

I keep remembering from my early student days how I would walk at night through the streets, my hands bunched into fists in the pocket of my coat, my head hunched deep into my collar, and how I used to say, 'I want to work, I shall work'--and then I would come back home and be so exhausted by my determination that I had no strength left to do the actual work.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.