A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.

If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.

The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop.

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Kindliness and sympathy, fellowship and understanding, are always good, but best when they come from a distant corner of the world.

Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.

The beginning of the decline of the Republic was the day they air-conditioned the Capitol.

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

The usefulness of any meeting is inversely proportional to the size of the group.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

I like to cook, but mostly Greek. When I am confused or tired, I think about what I can cook. It takes you away from everything, as you are thinking only of your dish.

I did not try to conform to anybody's ideal of what a Latin celebrity or movie star should be. I took a lot of hits for it.