One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.

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

Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself.

There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that they carry off lambs. And when the lambs whisper among themselves, "These birds of prey are evil, and does this not give us a right to say that whatever is the opposite of a bird of prey must be good," there is nothing intrinsically wrong with such an argument-though the birds of prey will look somewhat quizzically and say, We have nothing against these good lambs; in fact, we love them; nothing tastes better than a tender lamb.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

Do not paint a picture either of God or the devil on your walls: this will ruin both your walls and the atmosphere.