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

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone.

vegetarianism is the taproot of humanitarianism.

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.