There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.

Everyone but an idiot knows that the lower classes must be kept poor, or they will never be industrious.

The purpose creates the machine.

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.

The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.

The magic of property turns sand to gold.

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

The self in a toroidal Universe can be both separate and connected with everything else.

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one yet very little between a good one and none at all.

A life of devotion to one's passion gives meaning to life.

The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. Happiness comes from within and rests most securely on simple goodness and clear conscience.

All things flow nothing abides.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

A bad reader soon puts to flight both wise men and fools.

You have a deeper connection with people who you have shared experiences with and shared pain.

As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.

I'm not a dreamer... but I believe in miracles. I have to