“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”

Happiness consists of living each day as if it were the first day of your honeymoon and the last day of your vacation.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it.

If you look for perfection, you’ll never be content.

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.

Kings are the slaves of history.

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.

The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Heart is capable of so much more than just anger and bitterness.  

Love helps us to remain open to others and capable of sharing, even when one suffers from a rare disease, because every human life is unique.

Women are much more capable, braver, sharper, stronger and courageous than we think.

I just want women to always feel in control. Because we’re capable, we’re so capable.

My art is capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the practical, rational world.

I am so confident in that idea that if love gets a chance, it will transform the community and the world into a more prosperous place, because we are capable of love.