“The key to success in life is using the good thoughts of wise people.”

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness.

He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.

Faith is the force of life.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women.

Love those you hate you.

Don’t seek God in temples. He is close to you. He is within you. Only you should surrender to Him and you will rise above happiness and unhappiness.

Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

It’s all God’s will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

In the midst of winter, I find within me the invisible summer.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

Don’t stop now. Continue to work on yourself & your dream.

Don’t be too assuming, it doesn’t get you anywhere.

We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

I’ve always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn’t I?

We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.