We all suffer our share of grief but we are stronger than our grief.
Lessons are learned, not taught.
All laughter is subversive, even the laughter of children.
If you have the feeling, you can dispense with the words.
Few pleasures can equal that of setting off into the unknown.
To put one’s career before one’s personal life is like putting death before life.
We need to resist the tendency of the mind to diminish life, the world and who we are.
Cynicism is like a cancer of the spirit.
You’re the only you. So if you want to be original, just be yourself.
A little bit of affection goes a long way toward reconciling one with the world.
Every age has its pseudoproblems created by its fake prophets and pseudo-philosophers.
The well of secrets has no bottom.
I used to sit in the garden and think. Now I just sit in the garden.
How peaceful this whole earth seems when the cricket’s song is the only sound one hears.
Every step leads somewhere but thinking only leads to more thinking.
There is a madness that is joy and a madness that is just madness.
By attacking the life choices of others we only reveal our own fears and prejudices.
The poet: just another sleepwalker dreaming he’s awake.
Stand up for the poor, the defenseless, the stranger, the outcast. If you must have prejudices, at least have the right ones.
When men set out to create order, they create only misery.