Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

Beneath the hush a whisper from long ago, promising peace of mind and a burden shared. No peace which is not peace for all, no rest until all has been fulfilled.

Humility is just as much the opposite of self-abasement as it is of self-exaltation. To be humble is not to make comparisons. Secure in its reality, the self is neither better nor worse, bigger nor smaller, than anything else in the universe. It is ? is nothing, yet at the same time one with everything. It is in this sense that humility is absolute self-effacement.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish it is then that you must not hesitate.

'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.