Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

You shall not dwell in tombs made by the dead for the living.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.

Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion.

Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?

The mother is everything - she is our consolation in sorrow, our hope in misery, and our strength in weakness. She is the source of love, mercy, sympathy, and forgiveness. He who loses his mother loses a pure soul who blesses and guards him constantly