Is it possible to say what one really feels?

As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.

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

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom.