Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
The proper way to resist evil is to absolutely refuse to do evil either for one’s self or for others.
The closer we come to death, the more important becomes this single indispensable thing called life.
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.