The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

To wonder is to begin to understand.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

You, me---we're not the same, but we---our lives---somehow fit together.

Innocence expresses itself to a man so blind!

Human beings are the only creatures on Earth that allow children to come back home.

Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore.

I've missed you, too, Graystripe. I watch over you, every day and every night.

The truth is rarely true and never simple.

I'm a bad Jew, a bad Russian, a bad everything.

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.

A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma.