Tis well when we dare not do a thing we think is not good and fair; but not so well when we think a thing not good and fair because we dare not do it.

The reason why I hated school so intensely [was that] it interfered with my freedom.

It’s a good thing when you don’t dare do something if you don’t think it’s right. But it’s not good when you think something’s not right because you don’t dare do it.

No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.

All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path.

All things that a man owns hold him far more than he holds them.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.

I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.

Easy for them to keep their youth who will never learn a lesson.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.

There is something really good to say about humility. Being confident and humble is a great combination, maybe the best of all!

Drivers should not drive more than a minute without having a (purposefully-designed) curve.

Friendship is like flowers

Reality confounds image.

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

Some music really does suck!

I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.

Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth ever afterward resumes its liberty.