The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul.

Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

Thought is the fountain of speech.

Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

it'll be this kind of deep blue”she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words —the color of a completely closed-in night

One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man's greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.

I've always enjoyed the teen angst thing. I had a lot of teen angst as I was growing up, so I think I have a lot to say about it through characters before I have to move on.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

The family is the country of the heart.

Where there is peace, there cannot be chaos; the two cannot coexist at the same time.

I identified very much with punk, not only in the fashion sector, but in every other sector. The very nature of doing something new and free meant something that was against authority.

Know what people love to eat, prepare it yourself with love and serve them

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.

Public credit is suspicion asleep.