You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Only a philosophy of eternity, in the world today, could justify non-violence.

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.