All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

If I die prematurely at any rate I shall be saved from being bored to death by my own success.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud.

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

The joy of disruption comes from accepting that we all live in a temporal state.

Time will do his own drawing upon us but we will do our own drawing upon time as well!

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.

Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.

The war is waged against its own subjects and its object is not the victory...but to keep the very structure of society intact.

Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.

Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.