The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

History has shown there are no invincible armies.

In the end, everything is a gag.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.