One should eat to live, not live to eat.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

John Muir, Earth — planet, Un

The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.

For a chance with you, I can wait.

If you aren't building a social enterprise, I don't know what your business model will be in 5 years

Water will be more important than oil this century

When I kept surfing, surfing kept me.

I just dress up what the Good Lord provides.

You govern your surroundings by the nature of what is taking place in your consciousness.

I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.

I like the idea of Wild Infancy, of people who have a deprived background, of starting out wild.