To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

A person with a mind is bound to be filled with conceptions. These conceptions prevent him from knowing things directly, so a person with a mind shall never really know.

If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay.

The contented person finds rest in death, and for the greedy person, death puts an end to his long list of desires.

Division and differentiation are the processes by which things are created. Since things are emerging and dissolving all the time, you cannot specify the point when this division will stop.

Once you transcend the external differences, anything can be merged with anything.

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital.

Now that the war is winding down, I want to say I do appreciate you fellows hanging around here - just for me.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

You can be a victim, or you can lock and load.

To live well is to live in harmony with ourselves, others and nature, and that idea of harmony is, of course, an aesthetic one.

The language that nature speaks is the same language that we invented for mathematics. That's just an amazing piece of luck, which we don't understand.

The career isn't guaranteed for as long as you might want to play.

There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn’t where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn’t ever stop living under that big sky.

The rich man is everywhere expected and at home.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.