I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

You have a right to be you. It is a privilege for others to be around you.

We cannot achieve personal enlightenment – a clarification of our souls – until we cease deluding ourselves. We must accept that life includes witnessing and personally experiencing pain.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

I love it when people lie! Lying is only man's privilege over all other organisms. Lying is what makes me a man.

If criticism could kill you, I'd be dead.

That's what meditation is. You just sit with yourself.

Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil.

Reality is greater than our dreams.

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

In reality, time and space exist in you. You do not exist in them.