Men are so accustomed to maintaining external order by violence that they cannot conceive of life being possible without violence.

As we live through thousands of dreams in our present life, so is our present life only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more real life and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very real the life of God.

Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful.

There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.

There is no significant idea which cannot be explained to an intelligent twelve year old boy in fifteen minutes.