The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.

If you want to be happy, be.

What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen.

Several times I asked myself, "Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing.

There is only one time that is important -- NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person.