Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

I don't think badly of people. I like everybody, and I'm sorry for everybody.

I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.