Sometimes we feel the loss of a prejudice as a loss of vigor.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.

A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses.

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.