We create our fate every day . . . most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions, are but crude hieroglyphs chiseled in pain and sorrow to commemorate an event which is untransmissible.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

The goal of life is not to possess power but to radiate it.

I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face.