Good fiction doesn't come out of the basic conflict of good versus bad. Instead, it comes out of a conflict between good and good.

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals.

The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care.

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.