"He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."

"Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes and completes them by what is deepest in themselves."

"Life is like a B-picture script. It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down."

"Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation."

"Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."

"Holiness is doing God鈥檚 will with a smile."

"We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred."

"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward."

"No one who has not been siezed by the merderous jaws of the viper can know its poison fangs."

"Despise not any man, and do not spurn anything; for there is no man who has not his hour, nor is there anything that has not its place."

"You think that's noise - you ain't heard nuttin' yet!"

"Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies."