Discipline brings us effort, sacrifice and suffering. Later it brings us something of an inestimable value: something of which those who live only for pleasure, profit or amusement will always be deprived. This peculiar indefinable joy which one must have felt oneself to understand is the sign with which life marks its moment of triumph.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

One must train oneself, by small and frequent efforts, to dominate one's feelings.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

In man, the things which are not measurable are more important than those which are measurable.

Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.