My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

A holy spirit lives within you.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

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.