Neither man nor nation can exist without a sublime idea.

Love every leaf, every ray of light. Love the animals, love the plants, love each separate thing. Loving all, you will perceive the mystery of God in all.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.

Above all, don't lie to yourself.

For example, I'm terribly proud. I'm as mistrustful and as sensitive as a hunchback or a dwarf; but, in truth, I've experienced some moments when if someone had slapped my face, I might even have been grateful for it. I'm being serious. I probably would have been able to derive a peculiar sort of pleasure from it-the pleasure of despair, naturally, but the most intense pleasures occur in despair, especially when you're very acutely aware of the hopelessness of your own predicament.