Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.

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

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

Sometimes - history needs a push.

Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

Doubt must be no more than vigilance, otherwise it can become dangerous.

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

Only he who accepts clashes and conflicts in life, loves life.

The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet.

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

I have always regarded myself as the pillar of my life.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.

Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it.

Life must be lived as play.

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

Mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.