At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action.

Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself

I have always been a great dreamer; in dreams I am more active than in my real life, and these shadows sapped me of health and energy.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.