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

...so remember: great achievements take time, there is no overnight success.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

Patriotism in its simplest, clearest and most indubitable signification is nothing else but a means of obtaining for the rulers their ambitions and covetous desires, and for the ruled the abdication of human dignity, reason, conscience, and a slavish enthrallment to those in power.

Boredom is desire seeking desire.

He felt that all his hitherto dissipated and dispersed forces were gathered and directed with terrible energy towards one blissful goal.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.