“The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.”

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

One should use common words to say uncommon things.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Wealth is like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

We seldom speak of what we have but often of what we lack.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Man can do what he wills but he cannot will what he wills.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

What does your conscience say? – ‘You should become the person you are.

To realize one’s destiny is a person’s only obligation.

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.

Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, It can’t be done.

The right person by your side will have you saving money, living better, making moves, and laughing constantly.

A good person dyes events with his own colour and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Peace is the greatest weapon for development that any person can have.