By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen.

When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser.

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.

There is no possession more valuable than a good and faithful friend.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

If you want to be wrong then follow the masses.

I am a Citizen of the World, and my Nationality is Goodwill.

When I meet a woman whose energy falters at the first barrier, she seems to fade beside my mother.

Prevarication, like honesty, is reflexive, and soon becomes a sturdy habit, as reliable as truth.

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances.

Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World.

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.

I don't want a picture to look like something it isn't. I want it to look like something it is.

You want to do what you can while you are on this earth. Otherwise, the alternative is to go shopping.

No machines will ever truly fully figure the brain out, because the brain's performance is constantly altered or else constrained by this inanimate, rogue artifact you can't control, namely, speech.

My life and happiness speaks for itself.