The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

If religion is the establishing of a relationship between man and the universe, then morality is the explanation of those activities that automatically result when a person maintains a relationship to the universe.

I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

A man can spend several hours sitting cross-legged in the same position if he knows that noting prevents him from changing it; but if he knows that he has to sit with his legs crossed like that, he will get cramps, his legs will twitch and strain towards where he would like to stretch them.