“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.”

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

We don’t have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it’s not a man or woman, it’s what we lack in ourselves.

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

In chaos, there is fertility.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

It was while helping others to be free that I gained my own freedom.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.

What is love but acceptance of the other, whatever he is.

What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an ecstatic awareness of the whole of life.

I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.

We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment.

The value and utility of any experiment are determined by the fitness of the material to the purpose for which it is used, and thus in the case before us it cannot be immaterial what plants are subjected to experiment and in what manner such experiment is conducted.

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.

Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don’t be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see what turns up. Theorists almost always dislike this sort of approach.

The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or numerous enough to constitute proofs. This kind of calculation is more complicated and more difficult than it is commonly thought to be.

Experiments upon vegetation give reason to believe that light combines with certain parts of vegetables, and that the green of their leaves, and the various colors of flowers, is chiefly owing to this combination.

There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment.

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.