"The more I live, the more I become convinced that the only true happiness in life is to live for others."

"The soul is healed by being with children."

"Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy; it's only that. Whoever learns it will be happy at once, that instant."

"Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men of action, for example, must, I believe, have great sadness on earth."

"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."