Common sense is not so common.

The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Once you label me you negate me.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.

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

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

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.