“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

All good things are wild and free.

Things do not change; we change.

Life in us is like the water in a river.

What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Friends, they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.

There is absolutely no reason for being rushed along with the rush. Everybody should be free to go slow.

It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane.

The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

I would absolutely characterize myself as ambitious.

If absolute truth belongs to anyone in this world, it certainly does not belong to the man or party that claims to possess it.

It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.