It's an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.

Starlight encased in flesh. Fire burning in so much water. Poetry living in hard spaces. oh, how the body loves

You play with ice - you get cold.You play with fire - you get burnt.you play with me - you get lucky.

Be always sure you're right then go ahead.

The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State Library would send us a parcel of books by train.

The educator shall help the young to educate themselves in opposition to the age.

Nature has cast but two men in the mould of statesmen,--myself and Mirabeau. After that she broke the mould.

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

I simply don't want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.

I have few illusions: the cause is lost in advance. As for me, I do my part, which is to drag a fairly drab existence to its conclusion.