Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.

Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars

The Kingdom of God is Within You.

Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man.