To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

Life is like music: 

it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, 

not by rule.

Life is a journey that must be travelled 

no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

We do not take humour seriously enough.

Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. 

The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. 

Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

If one could conclude as to the nature of the Creator 

from a study of his creation

it would appear that God has a special fondness 

for stars and beetles.

When ignorance gets started 

it knows no bounds.

We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

My education was the liberty I had 

to read indiscriminately 

and all the time, 

with my eyes hanging out.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Science is all metaphor.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. 

The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

We are all in the gutter, 

but some of us are looking at the stars.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another 

and to us; 

nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

There are some good rules 

and there are some lousy rules.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

What matters is to live in the present, 

live now, 

for every moment is now. 

It is your thoughts and acts of the moment 

that create your future.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, 

for it's not the same river 

and he's not the same man.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

He who praises everybody, 

praises nobody.

The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Life is ours to be spent, 

not to be saved.

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. 

This is the secret of success.

If you run from technology, 

it will chase you.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

Like the herd animals we are, 

we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Each individual fact, 

taken by itself, 

can indeed arouse our curiosity 

or our astonishment, 

or be useful to us in its practical applications.

To prejudge other men's notions 

before we have looked into them 

is not to show their darkness 

but to put out our own eyes.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, 

and concepts for the things themselves.

All that is real is reasonable, 

and all that is reasonable is real.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

We increase whatever we praise. 

The whole creation responds to praise, 

and is glad.

Just luxuriate in a certain memory, 

and the details will come. 

It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. 

An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

What we observe as material bodies and forces are 

nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.

Knowing reality means 

constructing systems of transformations 

that correspond, 

more or less adequately, 

to reality.

Sometimes it's the detours which turn out to be the fruitful ideas.