In moments of great grief, that’s where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

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

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

The lie is a condition of life.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Intelligence is a moral category.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

It's not a question of learning much.On the contrary.It's a question of UNLEARNING much.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.