“Why should the constitution of a peaceful individual hold less weight than the constitution of a nation?”

“A philosopher's house is always more tuneful than a disciplinarian's.”

“What about the virtue of letting others be themselves? Is this not the greatest virtue of all?”

“I pray that if a god watches over us, it will have the decency to avoid the tasteless maneuver of voyeuristic trespass.”

“It is not that accepting and rejecting are great actions within themselves. But the right to accept or reject, now that is everything.”

“If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world.”

“The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.”