The truth is so simple that it is regarded as a pretentious banality.

It is more important to understand the ground of your own behavior than to understand the motives of another.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.