There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot come to terms with its stupidity and crudeness.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance. I regard every other attempt to change the world, even if it springs from the best intentions, as futile.

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.