The goal of evolution is self - conquest

There is no failure except the failure of trying.

Every spirit makes its house, but as afterwards the house confines the spirit, you had better build well.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''