Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.

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

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

Hard work, disciplined habits, modesty in living, contentment and cheerfulness.

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

Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.