Supporting one’s parents, cherishing spouse and children and a peaceful occupation; this is the greatest blessing.
People will ask me: Don’t you believe in God? No, I don’t. I believe in two things above all: Nature and Love. Nature is all-powerful. Love is how I understand the good. It might have been nice to believe in God, often defined as all-powerful and good, but combining the two like that has always posed too much of a contradiction for my poor mind to believe in.
The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Life without freedom is like a body without a soul, and freedom without thought is like a confused spirit…
