To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words. The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing. If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error.
Everyone hears only what he understands. You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere. We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies. He who moves not forward, goes backward. He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in the world.