“Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”

It is easy to understand God as long as you don’t try to explain him.

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

Justice is the truth in action.

When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

Ask the young. They know everything.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.

Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Never cut what you can untie.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.

To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

f we can get feminine and human morality out from under the yoke of a dead ethic, then maybe we’ll begin to get somewhere on the road that leads to survival.

When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I’m wrong.

Refraining from all evil, not clinging to birth and death, working in deep compassion for all sentient beings, respecting those over you and pitying those below you, without any detesting or desiring, worrying or lamentation – this is what is called Buddha. Do not search beyond it.

I can’t begin to describe the amount of crap I’ve taken for being a lousy free-throw shooter.

If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.