What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
As for politics, I’m an anarchist. I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can’t stand caged animals. People must be free.
Your naked body should only belong to those who fall in love with your naked soul.
More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.
Beauty is an omnipresence of death and loveliness, a smiling sadness that we discern in nature and all things, a mystic communion that the poet feels.
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But, life salutes you when you make others happy.
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.
In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way.
My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.
A day without laughter is a day wasted.
I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.
You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure...
In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll’s Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.
You need Power, only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done.
Think about yourself at least once in your life otherwise you may miss the best comedy in this world.
That’s the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.
Let us fight to free the world – to do away with national barriers – to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men’s happiness.
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.