"You only lose what you cling to."

"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"

"In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?"

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."

"They did not weave their lives around yours. They had their own lives, which were mysterious to you."

"In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property."

"The anarchists put the thing upside down. They declare that the proletarian revolution must begin by doing away with the political organization of the state. But to destroy it at such a moment would be to destroy the only organism by means of which the victorious proletariat can assert its newly-conquered power, hold down its capitalist adversaries, and carry out that economic revolution of society without which the whole victory must end in a new defeat and a mass slaughter of the workers similar to those after the Paris commune."

"It would appear that the natural frontier of Russia runs from Dantzic or perhaps Stettin to Trieste."

"The slave frees himself when, of all the relations of private property, he abolishes only the relation of slavery and thereby becomes a proletarian; the proletarian can free himself only by abolishing private property in general."

"The way in which the vast mass of the poor are treated by modern society is truly scandalous. They are herded into great cities where they breathe a fouler air than in the countryside which they have left."

"Competition permits the capitalist to deduct from the price of labour power that which the family earns from its own little garden or field; the workers are compelled to accept any piece wages offered to them, because otherwise they would get nothing at all, and they could not live from the products of their small-scale agriculture alone, and because, on the other hand, it is just this agriculture and landownership which chains them to the spot and prevents them from looking around for other employment."

"One day we shall certainly 'reduce' thought experimentally to molecular and chemical motions in the brain; but does that exhaust the essence of thought?"

"...it was always our view that in order to attain this [proletarian revolution] and the other far more important aims of the future social revolution, the working class must first take possession of the organised political power of the state and by its aid crush the resistance of the capitalist class and organise society anew."

"I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real."

"Life without death has become as unthinkable to me as day without night or waking without sleep."

"The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews."

"We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our own lives but reactors."

"Because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known"

"I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not."

"It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around..."

"It is out of the absence of God that God makes himself present,"