“Wealth is neither an ends nor a means, it is a symptom.”

“Time and suffering are inseperable. In life, as in physics, both are the common denominator of all experiences.”

“Even in love we suffer, because in that very moment of love, Time, the insatiable Devourer, is destroying what we love...or ourselves.”

“Where two or more are gathered in the name of Man; that is civilization; that is Order; and that is the beginnings of brutality and suffering.”

“If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.”

“Poverty is not a certain small amount of goods, nor is it just a relation between means and ends; above all it is a relation between people. Poverty is a social status. As such it is the invention of civilization. Socrates made the same point 2,400 years ago: "He is richest who is content with least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.”

“if you believe you can, or believe you can't - either way you're right”