I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Solitude is independence.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.