You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

Can a man of perception respect himself at all?

Let us be servants in order to be leaders.

Human laziness makes people pigeonhole one another at first site so that they find nothing in common with one another.

Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close.

If the person laughs well, they are a good person.