Help your sister's boat across the water, and yours too will reach the other side. Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.

[The designated or chosen leader tries to] articulate and justify the resentment dammed up in the souls of the frustrated. He kindles the vision of a breathtaking future so as to justify the sacrifice of a transitory present. He stages the world of make-believe so indispensable for the realization of self-sacrifice and united action.

Self-righteousness is a loud din raised to drown the voice of guilt within us.

Jesus was not a Christian, nor was Marx a Marxist.