“If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”

It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

Beauty will save the world.

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

Americans chose a free enterprise system designed to provide a quality of opportunity, not compel a quality of results. And that is why this is only place in the world where you can open up a business in the spare bedroom of your home.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

It compels wide tolerance not only for their expression but also for the organization of people and forces to bring about the acceptance of the dissenter’s claim.

It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.