"Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon."

"Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?"

"The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization."

"I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time."

"I don't think I've ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB."

"For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one."

"It is a timeless truth that peace of heart is the greatest luxury life can bestow upon the mortal traveler."

"Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy."