When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

In our interactions with people, a benevolent hypocrisy is frequently required--acting as though we do not see through the motivesof their actions.

There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration.

Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.