You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

The world is full of ways and means to waste time.

The world is full of injustice, and those who profit by injustice are in a position to administer rewards and punishments. The rewards go to those who invent ingenious justifications for inequality, the punishments to those who try to remedy it.

The increase in value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in value of the human world.

The dream vocabulary shaves meanings finer and closer than do the world's daytime dictionaries.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched-they must be felt with the heart.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it we can never do anything wise in this world.

Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

Is the world really beautified by the fact that man thinks it beautiful? He has humanized it, that is all.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

If our logic is to find the common world intelligible, it must not be hostile, but must be inspired by a genuine acceptance such as is not usually to be found among metaphysicians.

Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself.

Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

All I need is a sheet of paperand something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.