They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

All were happy - plants, birds, insects and children. But grown-up people - adult men and women - never left off cheating and tormenting themselves and one another. It was not this spring morning which they considered sacred and important, not the beauty of God's world, given to all creatures to enjoy - a beauty which inclines the heart to peace, to harmony and to love.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Man's proneness to engage in war is still a fact. But wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete.