Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Faith is not a thing which one loses, we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

...the most dangerous shortsightedness consists in underestimating the mediocre.

You owe it to everyone you love to find pockets of tranquility in your busy world.

What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.

Don't be afraid to lose him, because if a man truly loves you, he's not going anywhere

We all are creative by nature, but our creativity gets buried deep under the pressure of our day to day mad rush.

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates.

And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.

More and more these days I find myself pondering on how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.

The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

How many mistakes can one life survive?

If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security.

In LA, you think you're making something up, but it's making you up.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.