Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

The only real laughter comes from despair.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

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

Wisdom begins at the end.

What a man does for others, not what they do for him, gives him immortality.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

I don't like definitions, but if there is a definition of freedom, it would be when you have control over your reality to transform it, to change it, rather than having it imposed upon you. You can't really ask for more than that.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

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.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

When prosperity comes, do not use all of it.