Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat.

If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

...and with a burning pain in my heart I realized how unnecessary, how petty, and how deceptive all that had hindered us from loving was. I understood that when you love you must either, in your reasonings about that love, start from what is highest, from what is more important than happiness or unhappiness, sin or virtue in their accepted meaning, or you must not reason at all.

In my head there is a whole army of people asking to be let out and waiting for the word of command.