... can life be made undignified by any act of man?

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.

Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!

Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

That a Jew is despised or persecuted is bad for him, of course-but far worse for the Christian who does it-for although persecuted he can remain a good Jew-whereas no Christian who persecutes can possibly remain-if he ever was one-a good Christian.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.