Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

Everyone gives what he has. The soldier gives strength, the merchant goods, the teacher instruction, the farmer rice, the fisherman fish.

When the suffering becomes acute enough, one goes forward.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

You knew all along that your sanctioned world was only half the world, and you tried to suppress the other half the same way the priests and teachers do. You won't succeed. No one succeeds in this once he has begun to think.

Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.