Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

Milhões de pessoas morreriam de aborrecimento, por falta de imaginação, como sucede às moscas no Outono, se as privassem do oxigénio viciado da mentira.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Be near your brothers. Not just one, but both of them.

I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.

On our earth we can only love sincerely with suffering and through suffering. We do not know how to love any other way and know no other love. I want to suffer so that I can love. I desire, I thirst in this moment to kiss, weeping tears, that very earth which I left and I do not desire or accept life on any other ! . . .