He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.
And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.
A friend to all is a friend to none
If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.
Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.
You always admire what you really don't understand.
You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.
