There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'

Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.