Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.

You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world.