One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

History is a great cemetery: men, deeds, ideas are always dying as soon as they are born.

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

... to adapt one's outlook to another person's salvation is the surest and quickest way of losing him.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.

A Darwinian nation of economic fitness abhors idleness, dependence, non-productivity.

If women really did have complete equality with men, society would be completely overturned.