Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.