Beauty, well, it's one of the greatest, greatest gifts. I feel sorry sometimes because people are so worried and so involved in something that they don't have even five minutes to look at something beautiful.

The unequal distribution of food is one of the world's most tragic facts. Millions of people die because they have too little to eat, and many die because they have too much.

Alcohol is certainly one of the most abused drugs since ever and ever, since Dionysus. They say have a glass of wine at dinner, which was done in the Latin countries. In Italy we always had a glass of wine at dinner. It is a good thing. But if you have dozens of glasses of wine at dinner it is not so good.

How can we speak about "drugs"? It is like speaking about the human race - each person is different, each drug is different!

Service or giving is the other side of receiving. Giving and receiving is a full circle: a full circle feels more natural than a half circle.

The way that the soul is expressed now, and the only way it expresses itself in this age, is through the senses.

There is danger in everything that we do.