Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Your manner of life now is already determining your life in those years of old age and retirement, without your realizing it even, and perhaps without your giving enough thought to it. One must therefore prepare oneself for retirement.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

Most illnesses do not, as is generally thought, come like a bolt out of the blue. The ground is prepared for years through faulty diet, intemperance, overwork, and moral conflicts, slowly eroding the subject's vitality.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

...the highest sign of friendship is that of giving another the privilege of sharing your inner thought.

We are always looking for a grand program of action full of great ideas, when the thing is to begin by obeying the little ideas.