Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes.