“If you haven’t admired anybody in your whole life, you are the best candidate to be the world’s greatest megalomaniac!”

“Will you just stand on the foot of a high mountain and look at it with admiration or climb the top and be the admired itself? Remember that anybody can be an admirer; but the difficult thing is to be the admired one!”

“If you haven’t read Shakespeare’s Hamlet yet, it means that you haven’t reached the summit of the literature yet!”

“On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!”

“If your shout is local, only your village will hear you; if your whisper is universal, the whole world will hear you!”

“Anybody can be a believer; but anybody cannot be a good man! First, be good; then, in addition to this, be whatever you wish!”

“You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!”