Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

One faces the future with one's past.

It is love itself that is important -- the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.

Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.

... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.