If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

If you want someone to develop a specific trait, treat them as though they already had it.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.