A human can be healthy without killing animals for food.

And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our fear of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.

For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all.

Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.