Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

One can often hear from the young people:" I do not want to live according to others` mind. I can think of it myself. " Why should one think of something, when it is already thought about. Take it and go farther, this is the strength of the mankind.

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.

He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly

If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

What time can be more beautiful when the one in which the finest virtues, innocent cheerfulness and indefinable longing for love constitute the sole motives of your life.