Passion is like genius: a miracle.

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

It is not peace that I seek, but life.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

Any man who is really a man must learn to be alone in the midst of others, to think alone for others, and, if necessary, against others.

Everything is music for the born musician.

Let us return to our eagle's nest in the Himalayas. It is waiting for us, for it is ours, eaglets of Europe, we need not renounce any part of our real nature...whence we formerly took our flight.