Have patience with the quarrelsomeness of the stupid. It is not easy to comprehend that one does not comprehend.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.

Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.

There is music the moment you start listening.

I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness.

Sometimes not much is just enough.

Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind; and the nerves are king of the breath.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

Topography displays no favorites; North's as near as West. More delicate than the historians' are the map-makers' colors.

Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.

Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.

When you finish something of great importance to you and then it's over, you're left with this giant hole.

Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition.