Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

Thus does the unyielding, inescapable future ineluctably devour the present.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

When you know that something is dying inside you, you learn not to put much trust in the random vitalities of the fleeting moment.

Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured.

Men of great spirit are at high risk at a time when small souls rule the world.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.

I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy.

Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.

A schoolboy's tale the wonder of an hour!

You have to do your own work; Enlightened Ones will only show the way. Those who practise meditation will free themselves from the chains of death

You can do the best science in the world but unless emotion is involved it's not really very relevant. Conservation is based on emotion. It comes from the heart and one should never forget that.

Our actions are the ground we walk on.

You are not free until your past has no effect on your future

I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.

For government consists in nothing else but so controlling subjects that they shall neither be able to, nor have cause to do [it] harm.

Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.