People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.

Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy.

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

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.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.

If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!