Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
We lost because we told ourselves we lost.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
Music is the shorthand of emotion.
If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.
War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded.
