The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.

You go into a book and you're in the dark, really. You go in with a certain fear and trembling. You know one thing. You know you will not be the same person when this voyage is over. But you don't know what's going to happen to you between getting on the boat and stepping off.

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.

I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.