If you can put the question, 'Am I or am I not responsible for my acts?' then you are responsible.

A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

Drowning men, it is said, cling to wisps of straw.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less.

At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there I should find the key to the mystery, there I should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.