A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

The right to kill: supposing the life of X ... were linked with our own so that the two deaths had to be simultaneous, should we still wish him to die? If with our whole body and soul we desire life and if nevertheless without lying, we can reply 'yes'> then we have the right to kill.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

One should identify oneself with the universe itself. Everything that is less than the universe is subjected to suffering.

No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope.

Joy is being fully aware of reality.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.