On the bookshelf of life, God is a useful work of reference, always at hand but seldom consulted.

For all that has been, Thank you. For all that is to come, Yes!

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

Friendship needs no words.

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