Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Civilization is a perishable commodity.

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.

Will I ever see the mountains or am I doomed to roam the flatlands?

You want a wild ride, J.J.? I'll give it to you, hard and slow until you scream my name.

No one can do me any good by loving me I have more love than I need or could do any good with but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

It is good to be helpful and kindly, but don't give yourself to be melted into candle grease for the benefit of the tallow trade.

There are still women who are not living their own lives, but living through their men or their children

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

We are all aliens to ourselves, and if we have any sense of who we are, it is only because we live inside the eyes of others.