We choose a path, but not what’s on it.

Morality is simply a device for leading people around by the nose.

Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.

Every crack in the sidewalk has a story to tell.

I’m for the revolutionaries but against the revolution.

Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing.

The true skeptic is skeptical even about skepticism.

We forget more than we remember, we lose more than we find.

The perfect plan is to have none.

The poet’s task is to give every echo a voice.

I don’t want to be the one who says life is beautiful. I want to be the one who feels it.

We don’t know why anything happens or why anything is.

Things imagined are as real as things seen.

No one plants rosebushes for the thorns.

Make your life beautiful; you’re the only one who can.

Freedom, too, can be a trap if you pursue it too doggedly.

To one who loves birds, morning always wakes up singing.

Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun is always the same.

I have no heroes except flowers and children.

The right words to express oneself can never be found in any dictionary.

Error is the school we learn in.

Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.

What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be.

Some thoughts are too angry to sleep. They lie awake all night and become obsessions.

The flea that doubts doesn’t jump nearly as high

When Socrates said he knew nothing he still thought he knew more than anyone else.

Self-consciousness is hell.

Truth is not the rule, but the exception to the rule.

Be yourself, or whatever self you’d like to be.

The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do.

If I didn’t laugh, absurdity would get the best of me.

The order you seek is the chaos you feel.

Everything but a life can be replaced.

Morning not only forgives, it forgets.

What an artist finds, he finds without looking for it.

Blessed are the dreamers, for they keep the rest of us awake.

One writes primarily to free oneself from oneself.

Never doubt that a single moment can change everything.

There is peace in knowing that whatever one thinks it is not the truth.

A new theory doesn’t change the way things actually happen.

Never do anything for money you wouldn’t do for free.

The singing I like best is when I sing.

Cast yourself upon the waters. Trust in your ability to swim.

Tyranny begins with the laws of grammar.

One goes into the darkness to bring some light.

Clear thinking is to think of nothing at all.

Even blind alleys lead somewhere.

Thought always deceives us, when it becomes a substitute for action.

Rain never falls on a cloud.

How hard we work to overburden and overcomplicate our lives!