Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
One must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.