Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

I wanted only to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

The greatest threat to our world and its peace comes from those who want war, who prepare for it, and who, by holding out vague promises of future peace or by instilling fear of foreign aggression, try to make us accomplices to their plans.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

He has robbed me, yet he has given me something of greater value . . . he has given to me myself.