But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.

We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas