Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

So as a prince is forced to know how to act like a beast, he must learn from the fox and the lion; becouse the lion is defenceless against traps and the fox is defenceless against wolves. Therefore one must be a fox in order to recognise traps and lion to frighten off wolves.

You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.

The only obligation which I have a right to assume, is to do at any time what I think right.

None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.

In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail.

I am only one, but I am one. I can not do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I can not do interfere with what I can do.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.