Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

How many troubles (oopadhi) should you keep? Do not invite those that do not come and don't stop the ones that are leaving.

The Fourth Amendment wasn't written for people with nothing to hide any more than the First Amendment was written for people with nothing to say.

It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

I suppose what I like about Zen is that the teachers are constantly questioning your insight and challenging it, looking for sloppiness or laziness in it, and ways you can go past that.

The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

You want society to accept you; but you can’t even accept yourself.

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have