“Once, one has experienced this, one sees oneself in everything that lives, one recognises all of life as his life, everybody's interests as his own.”

“One can forget everything, everything, only not oneself, one's own being.”

“You see mother, you had no life of your own. They have no idea. One has only a life of one's own.”

“One must not live one's life through men but must be complete on oneself as a woman of substance.”

“He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.”

“In God's kingdom there is no fighting. He rules over both kingdom of hell and the kingdom of heaven, giving each of His creations what is due to them, but taking no share for Himself. God is One. He proclaims, My religion is to recognize all lives as one’s own life, all religions as one’s own religion, all languages as one’s own language, all vision as one’s own vision. It is in this state that God conducts His kingdom. He has no partialities, no religious differences, and prejudices based on skin color, whether it be black, red, white, or yellow. In His kingdom, there is no fighting.”

“The mind is its own place and in his inner life each of us lives the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear and jolt one another’s bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another’s minds and inoperative upon them.”

“An educated person is one who, through the travail of his own life, has assimilated the ideas that make him representative of his culture.”

“In life one should never give in, surrender oneself to mediocrity, but rather move out of that grey area where everything is habit and passive resignation. One has to grow the courage to rebel.”

“Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another.”