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.

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

To achieve the possible, we must attempt the impossible again and again.

A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...

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.

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.