If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war — to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
If you are idle, be not solitary. If you are solitary, be not idle.
At the beginning of a great national change, the patriot is a scarce man: scorned, ridiculed and forgotten. When his cause succeeds, however, all men will join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
When men take up arms to set other men free, there is something sacred and holy in the warfare.