The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

A problem well-put is half-solved.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

Appearance rules the world.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined or the insect, as well for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

The more I study science the more I believe in God.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.