This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide 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.

Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

Pets are found to suffer from all the ailments known to the human.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

Kanye West hasn't really done anything worthwhile-- except maybe musically, I haven't heard him. But he hasn't overthrown the government.

It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.

Good days are upon us.

During labor the most important thing is to get primal and surrender to the process.

I think I underestimated the way people bracket you.

Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that And manage it against despairing thoughts.