Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass.

There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.

. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . .

It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.