Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.

Adventure is worthwhile.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

Thank God who gave us relief from ruins of suffering.

Why should anyone hear the Gospel twice, before everyone has heard it once?

The rules of the world are changing. It is time for the rules of teaching and teachers' work to change with them.

No human being can come into this world without increasing or diminishing the sum total of human happiness.

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

My daughter Cosma is a very popular actress in Germany. She also organizes these wonderful open-air parties. She has a wonderful teacher, she's very smart. And I sometimes perform at her festivals.

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.