Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!

Everyone wants to change the world, but nobody wants to change himself.

What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor powerful explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment of the rich, ruling classes... but one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth ...that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.