I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.

Love is the crowning grace of humanity.

Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Man has not a greater enemy than himself.

It is better to will the good than to know the truth.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All pleasure in the world is a passing dream.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

For though I am a body of this earth, my firm desire is born from the stars.

Unless you want a horrible surprise, never go bird watching with an open mouth.

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

Symmetry is pleasing but not as sexy. Einstein is cool but Picasso knows what I'm talking about.

I'd rather do my own performance than copy someone else's.

At some glad moment was it nature's choice to dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

Serenity is the final word of all the teachings; reflection is the response to all manifestations.

Know thyself,’ said Socrates. Know thyself,’ said Sappho, ‘and make sure that the Church never finds out.

The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.

What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.