“ What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul ”

“ He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two. ”

“ Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent. ”

“ There is only one important point you must keep in your mind and let it be your guide. No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die, this is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us, not even the Buddha. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life? ”

“ Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. ”

“ If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito. ”

“ The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. ”

“ Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. ”

“ Things do not change; we change. ”

“ Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all. ”

“ The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air in a spacious apartment, and warms that, instead of robbing himself, makes that his bed, in which he can move about divested of more cumbrous clothing, maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter, and by means of windows even admit the light and with a lamp lengthen out the day. ”

“ Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. ”