The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

Ideals are thoughts. So long as they exist merely as thoughts, the power in them remains ineffective.

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.