1. “To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”
2. “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
3. “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.”
4. “Man likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.”
5. “It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”
6. “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
7. “The soul is healed by being with children.”
8. “man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering…”
9. “Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
10. “Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.”
11. “The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.”
12. “If you want to over come the whole world, overcome yourself.”
13. “The man who has conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.”
14. “Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
15. “A beast can never be as cruel as a human being so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.”
16. “One can fall in love and still hate.”
17. “A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart”
18. “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed ad betrayed yourself for nothing.”
19. “It’s the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.”
20. “Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.”
21. “I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.”
22. “Everything passes only truth remains.”
23. “Compassion is the chief law of human existence.”
24. “Life is paradise and we are all in paradise, but we refue to see it.”
25. “To think too much is a disease.”
26. “The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.”
27. “In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is least partly guilty for another’s sin. There is no isolated sin.”
28. “It is amazing hat one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”
29. “There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience but neither is there more agonizing.”
30. “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
