“If each person does the best with what he has, that’s winning. He’s fulfilling his own potential.”
“A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christian or a Buddhist or Hindu than he does with a fanatic of his own religion. In fact, he has more in common with a ration, reasonable-minded atheist than he does with a fanatic of his own religion”
“Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.”
“He who suffers wins in politics. The martyr does not obtain the victory personally, but his group, his successors, win in the long run.”
“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.”
“Mankind has invented the mirror in vain, for there’s nobody in this world who looks into the mirror and sees himself as he truly is; each person has his own mirror hidden in his own mind and he can’t see more than what that mirror in his mind reflects!”