All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.

History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.

The kinder and more intelligent a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. Kindness enriches our life; with kindness mysterious things become clear, difficult things become easy and dull things become cheerful.

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.

Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got.

The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness.