"You shouldn't give circumstances the power to rouse anger, for they don't care at all."

God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I thought I was growing wings—but I was only growing old.