Many people have ideas on how others should change; few people have ideas on how they should change.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

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.

Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn.

Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?