Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

Right attitudes produces right action

And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.

I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

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.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.