Ultimately, the only way to make good friends is to become a good friend yourself. Good people gather around other good people.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can affect other living beings and even the fundamental being of humankind as a whole. Furthermore, the minds of humankind fuse into one and exert a continuous influence, both physical and spiritual, on other living beings and on the whole of nature.

No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.

There are no greater treasures than the highest human qualities such as compassion, courage and hope. Not even tragic accident or disaster can destroy such treasures of the heart.

Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.