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

Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

Happy people have no history.

But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare – a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute – was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart – the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone.

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.