If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Gratitude is not a virtue I believe in, and to me it seems hypocritical to expect it from a child.

Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

It is not for me to judge another man's life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.

Every important cultural gesture comes down to a morality, a model for human behavior concentrated into a gesture.