We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

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

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

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

It is the story that owns and directs us. It is the thing that makes us different from cattle; it is the mark on the face that sets one people apart from their neighbors.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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