Youth is wholly experimental.

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.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

It’s only a scratch, don’t cut my arm off!

What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.

Just the idea to have everything you need essentially stored in one piece of portable technology is very exciting.

Whenever we condemn, we cloak the world in pain.

I pressed her thigh and death smiled

I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.

The shock of unemployment becomes a pathology in its own right.

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.