When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

To be loved is very demoralizing.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

We’re a blip in the existence of the universe, and we’re constantly trying to pull each other down. Not doing things to help each other.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

When you give, it comes back to you.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you’re already accepted, and you’re not really concerned about offending people.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

I think any man who lets a woman pick what he should wear… I mean, you gotta draw the line somewhere as a man. I see these guys, ‚My wife told me to wear this!‘ And I just shake my head.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

True Scouts are the best friends of animals, for from living in the woods and wilds, and practising observation and tracking, they get to know more than other people about the ways and habits of birds and animals, and therefore they understand them and are more in sympathy with them.

We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all – most of us, anyway – want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

All men hate the nagging.

The way up and the way down are one and the same.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

If you’re in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.

Philosophy is the highest music.

No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Strictly speaking, therefore, all that is separate from us, all which Philosophy distinguishes as the ‚Not Me,‘ that is, both nature and art, all other men and my own body, must be ranked under this name, ‚Nature.‘

I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Wisdom begins in wonder.