Many people wait throughout their whole lives for the chance to be good in their own fashion.

There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

What is happening to me happens to all fruits that grow ripe. It is the honey in my veins that makes my blood thicker, and my soul quieter.

All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, — the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy).

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!