I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed.

Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave.

And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy.

Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.