It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

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.

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.

Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

The quality of ideas seems to play a minor role in mass movement leadership. What counts is the arrogant gesture, the complete disregard of the opinion of others, the singlehanded defiance of the world.