“[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”

“What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives acts and experiences otherwise than we do?”

“What you feel about another person, what you think or say about another person, what you do to another person – you do to you. Give judgment and criticism and you give it to yourself. Give love and appreciation to another person or anything, and you give it to yourself.”

“Everybody's born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I'd really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person.”

“Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?”

“It's monstrous, what one person will do to another.”