Examine a person closely enough and you know more about him than he does himself. - Hermann Hesse

[H]e never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair.

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

"Like animals we call to each other," was the thought that came to him as he remembered the hour of love in the afternoon.