Nothing is black or white.

We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill, those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

Sunlight is painting.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The day of individual happiness has passed

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and thats to get rid of all my other desires.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

His modesty amounts to deformity.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Freedom lies in being bold.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.