And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire emotion and knowledge.

Science is nothing but perception.

Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool because he has to say something.

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Not all mysteries are meant to be solved. Not all secrets are meant to be told.

There was something about Mikie that made me want to trust him. It might have been the Centanario Anejo.

Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee neither search the things that are above thy strength.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.

The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another.

He would have been handsome—in a serial-killer kind of way—if not for those tattoos.

If you are facing a difficult task don’t put it off. If you do it will just keep tormenting you.

It is strange, how quickly people want to obligate their poets, as it were, on the exile.

Once there was a darkness, a deep and endless night, you gave me everything you had and oh, you gave me light