The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I am conscious that meat eatingis not in accordance with the finer feelings,and I abstain from it whenever I can.

Even if it is a little thing, do something for those who have need of help.

Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

I decided that I would make my life my argument.

Living truth is that alone which has its origins in thinking. Just as a tree bears year after year the same fruit which is each year new, so must all permanently valuable ideas be continually born again in thought.