There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.

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

If you don't have the capacity to change yourself and your own attitudes, then nothing around you can be changed.

I promise to crush Israel and return it to the humiliation and wretchedness of the Koran.

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Let there be no more war or bloodshed between Arabs and Israelis. Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights. Let there be no more despair or loss of faith.

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

If you don't have the power to change yourself, then nothing will change around you.

Peace is more precious than a piece of land.

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

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

I won't be mad at you because you gave me something no one else has: the ability to live even when I thought I was dead.

Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy.

There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it, fresh life and strength surging in his blood and bracing his limbs.

Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.

The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears.

Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?