So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few.

It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public.

Few men think, yet all will have opinions.

The world is like a board with holes in it, and the square men have got into the round holes, and the round into the square.

I had rather be an oyster than a man, the most stupid and senseless of animals.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

My greatest wish

The journey of growth, search for the secret has always been within, the simpler we make it, the better it gets.

Philosophy and religion - what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?

Oh, well, that's not bad, I suppose. I mean, I'd prefer devastatingly sophisticated - but almost endearing is more than I could have hoped for under the circumstances.

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can.

I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.

The length of your days does not belong to you.

In general, a fact is worth more than theories in the long run. The theory stimulates, but the fact builds. The former in due time is replaced by one better but the fact remains and becomes fertile.

Im constantly being inspired by the old days and taking things from the past and allowing them to lift me up where I am now.