We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.

We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor.

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.

Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.