In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'.

Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth.

The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.

What I think about vivisection is that if people admit that they have the right to take or endanger the life of living beings for the benefit of many, there will be no limit to their cruelty.