Jewish legend says that the world rests on 36 just men: only thirty six, but their moral strength is immense.

One of the worst forms of mental suffering is boredom, not knowing what to do with oneself and one's life. Even if man had no monetary, or any other reward, he would be eager to spend his energy in some meaningful way because he could not stand the boredom which inactivity produces.

Fairness means not to use fraud and trickery in the exchange of commodities and services and the exchange of feelings.

The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.

We are all equal in the sense that no man must mean - must be - the means for the purposes of another man; but each individual is an end in itself.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.