It is a good instinct if you don't distort it and pervert it. Don't give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

The key to life is to develop an internal moral, emotional GPS that can tell you which way to go.

Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum.

A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect.