Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

One love, one heart, one destiny.

Master of human destinies am I! Fame, love, and fortune on my footsteps wait.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

Listen with ears of tolerance, see through the eyes of compassion, speak with language of love.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.