A smile goes a long way, but you must first start it on its journey.

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

Now, however, I see the folly of attempting to hitch one's wagon to a star with a harness that does not belong to it.

Reality even when it is sad is better than illusions. Illusions are at the mercy of any winds that blow. Real happiness must come from within, from a fixed purpose and faith in one's fellow men.

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.