In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

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.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

The Streets are filled with regret.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to criticize the society in which he is being educated.

Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

You're not fit to live, if you claim to be concerned for the deaths that are taking place due to China Virus while on the other hand you don't bat an eye for the 15-20 million abortions that take place in India alone.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.

Given appropriate social conditions, decent, ordinary people can be led to do extraordinarily cruel things.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.