humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle

Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

Passion makes every detail important.

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.