Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

In this world of ours, the sparrow must live like a hawk if he is to fly at all.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

When it comes to the challenges of the actual process, I soldier on as best I can, on my own.

Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf

If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average.

It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments.

In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

The only reason I work out is so I can eat more cheese.

Why be unhappy about something if it can be remedied? And what is the use of being unhappy about something if it cannot be remedied?