Pacifism simply is not a matter of calm looking on; it is work, hard work.

It seems to me nowadays that the most important task for someone who is aging is to spread love and warmth whenever possible.

When Michelangelo was an old man, he drew himself sitting in a child's pushcart.

To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself.

I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me, until the last small twig has grown.

While I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate.

If all the people who have been hurt by the war were to exclude joy from their lives, it would almost be as if they had died.