Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures.

I might believe in the Redeemer if his followers looked more redeemed.

Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.

Creation is the great redemption from suffering and all life's growing light. But the creator must be suffering if needed and accept much change.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.