I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth

Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory

Read less, study less, but think more

All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.

If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.