You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

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

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Nothing is black or white.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

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

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

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

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

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.