Life and Existence

A different language is a different vision of life.

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

What is traveling? Changing your place? By no means! Traveling is changing your opinions and your prejudices.

We work to become, not to acquire.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

Nine times out of ten, the first thing a man’s companion knows of his shortcomings is from his apology.

The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

When you have to make a choice and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door.

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life but that it bothers him less and less.

A bore is a fellow talker who can change the subject to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.