I Have No Extraordinary Ability. I'm Simply

When You Trip Over Love, It Is Easy To Get Up. But When You Fall In Love, It Is Impossible To Stand Again.

I Have Never Belonged Wholeheartedly To A Country, A State, Nor To A Circle Of Friends, Nor Even To My Own Family. When I Was Still A Rather Precocious Young Man, I Already Realized Most Vividly The Futility Of The Hopes And Aspirations That Most Men Pursue Throughout Their Lives. Well-being And Happiness Never Appeared To Me As An Absolute Aim. I Am Even Inclined To Compare Such Moral Aims To The Ambitions Of A Pig.

Before God We Are All Equally Wise - And Equally Foolish.

... A Person Who Is Religiously Enlightened Appears To Me To Be One Who Has, To The Best Of His Ability, Liberated Himself From The Fetters Of His Selfish Desires And Is Preoccupied With Thoughts, Feelings, And Aspirations To Which He Clings Because Of Their Superpersonal Value.

The Only Rational Way Of Educating Is To Be An Example. If One Can't Help It, A Warning Example.