Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.

Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

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

It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides.

There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.

Every act of irreverence for life, every act which neglects life, which is indifferent to and wastes life, is a step towards the love of death. This choice man must make at every minute. Never were the consequences of the wrong choice as total and as irreversible as they are today. Never was the warning of the Bible so urgent: 'I have put before you life and death, blessing and curse. Choose life, that you and your children may live.'

Giving is the highest expression of potency.