The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slippin….

To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium..

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness..

French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is d….

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne..

The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

What seems new is only new to us..

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom..

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death..

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up..

Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it..

Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world..

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth..

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings..

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind..

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail..

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death..

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked..

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean….

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation..

One faces the future with one's past..