Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

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

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

There is no question climate change is happening. The only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

The greatest of wealth is the richness of the soul.

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

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

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

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

A man is literally what he thinks.

You don't want to lose your old friend - the misery - You have invested too much into false - Hence the fear to be exposed -to be true - to be naked as you are.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

It was a melancholy secret that reality can arouse desires but never satisfy them.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

The oldest, shortest words- 'yes' and 'no'- are those which require the most thought.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.