Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What’s your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books'.
