Progress is discovering what you can do without.

Calling the cat stupid never made the mice wise.

Flowers are the music of the earth.

Writing is like life: it goes on.

Love, and love alone, drives out fear.

Art should be sublime and a little silly.

After one has read everything and thought everything, one still have everything to learn.

It’s not true that skeptics consider nothing sacred. They consider freedom sacred.

The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words.

Real dishes break. That’s how you know they’re real.

No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.

Fighting doesn’t hurt until you stop.

Being alive is having what I want, that is my joy, my happiness.

A grief travels with us as far as we carry it.

Love is the desire for another’s happiness.

If the cherry trees had to wait for understanding they’d never blossom.

Why think when you can sing?

The woods are full of poison berries but you don’t have to eat them.

What we do today means a great deal, though it may mean nothing tomorrow.

Play your music so the earth can dance.

Sudden revelations vanish just as suddenly.

We’re all on different paths but headed in the same direction.

Ideology is the product of a kind of mad logic.

Some people have no talent but we can’t all be that lucky.

A breath, to keep one going, must be one’s own.

Philosophers console themselves with explanations.

Information is what you put in empty heads to keep them empty.

Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.

Only a free hand can draw a free line.

Things are beautiful when they’re allowed to be free.

We are born free, but we’re taught to obey orders.

What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think.

All children are born rebels and explorers until they’re taught to sit still and obey.

If you have the experience, why do you need the words?

Listen when the sirens sing. How else will you learn?

Life is worth living but not worth thinking about

Love is suffering only when one refuses to love.

Truth is an outlaw in every country.

You begin with other people’s memories and end up with your own.

Out of ignorance or expediency we give all snowflakes the same name.

Walk slowly through the world and pay attention

If you follow the rules, it’s your own fault.

The sun is my wine.

Enjoy your life, the time you have now, because time cannot be found only lost.

Passing pleasures, like passing clouds, are all we have.

A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.

Stop comparing yourself to others and you’ll be happy.

Inspiration is simply doing whatever it is you want to do.

Culture is local; art, universal.

Dreams must be ground into bread, and the bread eaten.