It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.

Good heredity and environment are necessary. You cannot compare the child of a savage with the child of a civilized person.

A man who is seeking to understand violence does not belong to any country, to any religion, to any political party or partial system; he is concerned with the total understanding of mankind.

Only when your hearts are empty of the things of the mind, is there love. Then you will know what it is to love without separation, without distance, without time, without fear.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.