We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down on the hate of those below.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

A person preaches well that lives well.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

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

No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

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

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.