Flattery leads to vulgarity; the flatterer is despised.

Always help those who are being persecuted.

Where there is no compassion, crime increases.

Find a day for yourself-better yet, late at night. Go to the forest or to the field, or lock yourself in a room ... You will meet solitude there. There you will be able to listen attentively to the noise of the wind first, to birds singing, to see wonderful nature and to notice yourself in it ... and to come back to harmonic connection with the world and its Creator.

Man must not rely on pure reason; he must mix faith with it.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

Teach a child good manners during babyhood.