You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

One does not concern oneself with the expressions, but rather with life. You are looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope when you look at the expressions of life.

If people who say they love their children meant it, would there be war? And would there be division of nationalities - would there be these separations?

I am all for changing, even if mistakes are made in the process. Mistakes do not matter.

When you say that I have followers, let me assure you that I do not want followers, nor would I ever encourage the idea of following.

Surely, life is not merely a job, an occupation; life is something extraordinarily wide and profound, it is a great mystery, a vast realm in which we function as human beings.

To understand life is to understand ourselves, and that is both the beginning and the end of education.