I do not wish my house to be walled and my windows stuffed. I want all cultures to blow freely through my dwelling.

Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity.

That which is inherent in man is his virtue.

The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science.

Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering.

Let the villages of the future live in our imagination, so that we might one day come to live in them!

It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence.