"I believe that much of the world's sorrow is caused by people who are this, but allow themselves to be treated like that."

"In prosperity prepare for a change; in adversity hope for one."

"People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend."

"Human science is an uncertain guess."

"In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal."

"Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."

"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued."

"It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it."

"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty."

"There isn't any virtue where there has never been any temptation."

"TWICE, adv. Once too often."

"People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history."