History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends.

What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty.

Between the murder of an animal and the murder of a man, there's no more than ONE step!

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him. And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him.