Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

We smoked the joints down to the roaches and then relaxed beneath the stars to let the drug form dazzling constellations.

There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

People who try to define their spirituality sometimes are annoying, 'cause the spirit is something you feel and let guide you and humbly respect.

My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.

It's extremely hard to get rid of any population. When they say polio is essentially wiped out, it's not. If we let up on the vaccinations, it will make a come back.

My childhood was not an episode from Downton Abbey

Discipline is the habit of taking consistent action until one can perform with unconscious competence. Discipline weighs ounces but regret weighs tons.

Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.

I would definitely describe myself as a workaholic.

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.