The soul is healed by being with children.

At some thoughts one stands perplexed - especially at the sight of men's sin - and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that, once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.

Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us.

And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that’s the chief thing, and that’s everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all.

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

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons