“Our quarrel with the world is an echo of the endless quarrel proceeding within us.”

“Empathy, alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.”

“Our greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us, but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.”

“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”

“We probably have a greater love for those we support than for those who support us. Our vanity carries more weight than our self-interest.”

“How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.”

“The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.”