Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.
A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.
History is the devil's scripture.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Sometimes - history needs a push.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.