No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

We know too much and feel too little.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things-this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship... United with his fellow men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom, the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of love.

For over two thousand years it has been the custom among earnest moralists to decry happiness as something degraded and unworthy

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.