“One must be cunning and wicked in this world.”

A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it.

It’s not given to people to judge what’s right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, ‘Today I’m going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.

Let the dead bury the dead, but while I’m alive, I must live and be happy.

What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.

We are asleep until we fall in Love!

Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

I’m like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he’s cold, and his clothes are torn, and he’s ashamed, but he’s not unhappy.

Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

The sober devil can hide his cloven hoof; but when the devil drinks he loses his cunning and grows honest.

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

He is many things – dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy – but he comes from an age when a man’s word was indeed precious.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness