Self-knowledge, I guess, is hard. But I think pain is harder, personally. I think to be hopeless is very hard. I think to die without hope or to live without hope is very hard.

Some tried to kill him; there were assassination attempts. Some hated him ... this is par for the course.

This world only brings things apart that come together, and brings things together that weren't together.

You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.

This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.

Who's to say what's right or wrong? The courts and the society can be totally wrong. Nazi Germany, what did they say was the right thing to do? To destroy and burn Jews.

A better lifetime comes from not some karmic scale but from inner knowledge. Inner knowledge makes you happy. In other words, it is not as if someone is checking!