You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Desire is the very essence of man.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

The lie is a condition of life.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

An understanding of the natural world is a source of not only great curiosity, but great fulfilment.