Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

You always pass failure on the way to success.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.