But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

When we hate a person, what we hate in his image is something inside ourselves. Whatever isn't inside us can't excite us.

I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.

An enlightened man had but one duty - to seek the way to himself, to reach inner certainty, to grope his way forward, no matter where it led.

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

The tree does not die, it waits.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.