People are always happy where there is love, because their happiness in in themselves.

If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.

I was now prepared to accept any faith so long as it did not demand a direct denial of reason, which would have been a deceit.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions.

And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either.