It doesn't matter whether or not you have a head, you must wear the right sort of hat

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

What first truly stirred my soul was not fear or pain, nor was it pleasure or games; it was the yearning for freedom. I had to gain freedom-but from what, from whom? Little by little, in the course of time, I mounted freedom's rough unaccommodating ascent. To gain freedom first of all from the Turk, that was the initial step; after that, later, this new struggle began: to gain freedom from the inner Turk-from ignorance, malice and envy, from fear and laziness, from dazzling false ideas; and finally from idols, all of them, even the most revered and beloved.

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

There is no harsher means of punishment, than to answer malice with kindness.

The truth is that we all are one, that all of us together create god, that god is not man's ancestor, but his descendant.

All the political, social, and economic improvements, all the technical progress cannot have any regenerating significance, so long as our inner life remains as it is at present. The more the intelligence unveils and violates the secrets of Nature, the more the danger increases and the heart shrinks.