Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

endurance of inescapable sorrow is something which has to be learned alone. And only to endure is not enough. Endurance can be a harsh and bitter root in one's life, bearing poisonous and gloomy fruit, destroying other lives. Endurance is only the beginning. There must be acceptance and the knowledge that sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.