An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man.

Don't seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

To abolish war it is necessary to abolish patriotism, and to abolish patriotism it is necessary first to understand that it is an evil. Tell people that patriotism is bad and most will reply, 'Yes, bad patriotism is bad, but mine is good patriotism.'

Without the support from religion--remember, we talked about it--no father, using only his own resources, would be able to bring up a child.

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