A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher.

He who does not see God in the next person he meets need look no further.

As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul.

I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause.

Poverty is the greatest violence.

There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.