Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: "Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!"

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.