When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.

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.

If you want to be a leader, don't stand on the toes of dwarfs. Mount the shoulders of giants and you will see further.

Nobody ever stays the same after someone they know tries to kill themselves…

Your brain commands your body to "Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to the infield!" Then your body says "Who me?"

Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.

And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.

I'm always on the side of the characters, rather than the side of the people attacking them. I get realistic. It's not gratuitous.

Cats always pick the laps of the people who don't like them.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

It is idle to await unanimity.

It is impossible to fulfill the law concerning love for Me, God eternal, apart from the law concerning love for your neighbors.