People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou relationship. God comes and goes in man's soul. And men come and go in each other's souls. Sometimes they come and go in each other's beds, too.

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.