Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

Faith means that a man should regard any disaster simply as a fate-determined blow which must be endured.

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual-and the soul of a people.

To damage the sovereignty of the individual is to replace a community inspired by love, benevolence, and beauty by another based solely on power.

If human values were relative, all laws-whether those based on revealed religions or those devised by man-would become meaningless.

I believe that for peace a man may, even should, do everything in his power. Nothing in this world could rank higher than peace.

Two places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell.

Whatever the time or circumstances, the feeling that I am a peasant gives me a rare self-sufficiency. Indeed, the land is always there. I can go back to it at any time.

I do not care for socially recognizable success. I only value that success which I can feel within me, which satisfies me, and which basically stems from self-knowledge.