Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.

It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his custom to call women. The individual disappeared, the features were obliterated, whether young or senile, beautiful or ugly - those were mere unimportant variations. Behind each woman rises the austere, sacred and mysterious face of Aphrodite.

The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.

We're going to start with small, easy things; then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.

Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.