"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."

"The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe."

"A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education."

"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you."

"Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed."

"When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it."

"Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix)"

"'Think as I think' said the man, 'or you are abominable. You are a toad.' And after I had thought on it, I said 'I will then, be a toad.'"

"Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity."

"He was burned, so he ran into the bamboo grove, but the grove caught fire."

"The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market."

"I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours."