Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.