The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Do you say that religion is still needed? Then I answer that Work, Study, Health and Love constitute religion. . . . Most formal religions have pronounced the love of man for woman and woman for man an evil thing. . . . They have said that sickness was sent from God. . . . Now we deny it all, and again proclaim that these will bring you all the good there is: Health, Work, Study - Love!

Public opinion is the judgment of the incapable many opposed to that of the discerning few.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

Life is a compromise between fate and free will.