Always meet petulance with gentleness and perverseness with kindness. A gentle hand can lead even en elephant by a hair. Reply to thine enemy with gentleness.

Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.

Turn yourself not away from three best things: Good Thought, Good Word, and Good Deed.

With an open mind, seek and listen to all the highest ideals. Consider the most enlightened thoughts. Then choose your path, person by person, each for oneself.

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

Happiness comes to them who bring happiness to others.

A reflective, contented mind is the best possession.

If one would have a friend, then must one also be willing to wage war for him: and in order to wage war, one must be capable of being an enemy.

One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.

Excessive liberty and excessive servitude are equally dangerous, and produce nearly the same effect.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

What is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause but what they say about their opponents.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

Every season is filled with lessons.

A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food.

People never get tired of looking at beautiful pictures of gorgeous girls.

I don't really have a New Year's resolution to go on a diet or anything like that. I am who I am, and I don't want to be somebody else.

Usually people think that it is the musicians who create the music, but in fact it is music who creates the musicians.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.