The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
If you want to be happy, be.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
