Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.

The way to know life is to love many things.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.

What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life.

The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.

We think too much and feel too little.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

You never know what life is like, until you have lived it.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

You can have it all. Just not all at once.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I am not young enough to know everything.