I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Effective action is always unjust.

Work is the rent you pay for the room you occupy on earth.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.