A forest doesn't weep over one tree.

Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

What is the most precious thing in the world? I see now that it is the knowledge that you have no part in injustice. Injustice is stronger than you, it always was and always will be, but let it not be done through you.

Oh, how hard it is to part with power! This one has to understand.

Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.

I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.