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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

I think our capacity for wholeheartedness can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted. It means engaging with the world from a place of vulnerability and worthiness.

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.