“Comprehending and knowing better and deeper are the best guarantees we can have to attain ideas and criteria of our own; i.e. to stop depending on what other people say. In summary, to be freer to choose our own path in life.”

“We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.”

“We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.”

“But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.”

“We have all been placed on this earth to discover our own path, and we will never be happy if we live someone else's idea of life.”

“We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story.”