For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts.

Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

In your life you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some that you wish you never have to think about again. But you do.

Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.