“A wellborn soul is guided by only one principle in the world: always do good to others and never harm”
“My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.”
“The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
“One could only damage oneself through the harm one did to others. One could never get directly at oneself.”
“In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.”
“The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle—a stereotype—to guide their buying: “expensive = good.”