The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he who is ready to die.

It's interesting to observe that almost all truly worthy men have simple manners, and that simple manners are almost always taken as a sign of little worth

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Ignorance is the greatest source of happiness.

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

In all climates, under all skies, man's happiness is always somewhere else.

What do you do there, moon, in the sky? Tell me what you do, silent moon. When evening comes you rise and go contemplating wastelands; then you set.

If the tree doesn't hug you back, it's not a problem with the tree, it's a problem with your heart.

Seek grace and manna daily.

They can't give you all that, Mr Jimson, ' said Walter, who was upset. 'It wouldn't be right. What would they give you seven years for?''Being Gulley Jimson, ' I said, 'and getting away with it.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.

I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left.

Part of the pleasure of any kind of walking for me is the very idea of going somewhere-by foot.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.