True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body the two are ever united.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman

Many parts of a pine tree are edible.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

I just don't accept midgets as human beings. There's only so much political correctness I can accept.

Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.

Fortune is like a coquette; if you don't run after her, she will run after you.

It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!

When you have a choice whether to be be right or to be kind, choose to be kind.

Thank God for the creative ideas that enrich life by adding your own creative contributions to human progress