I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.