The essence of love is kindness.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

I jumped up and down and swore violently in seventeen languages.

There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin, till time and error and accident were undone, and the world became comprehensible and whole.

I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously.

God is the larger context and plot in which our stories find themselves.

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

I believe only in art and failure.

I'm happy with the people that I have around me. And they've been friends of mine since I was young, for a very long time.

I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

I'm not a snob. Ask anybody-well, anybody who matters.