The only real laughter comes from despair.

Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

Think globally, act locally.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.