Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.

All outward forms of change brought about by wars, revolutions, reformations, laws and ideologies have failed completely to change the basic nature of man and therefore of society.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

After all, without understanding yourself, what basis have you for right thinking?

Analysis does not transform consciousness.

The ending is the beginning, and the beginning is the first step, and the first step is the only step.

It is very difficult to be like the other guy, to be ordinary. Mediocrity takes a great deal of energy. But to be ourselves is very easy. You don't have to do a thing.