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

"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist."

Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life.

I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.