Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one's own person.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

To define is to limit, to set boundaries, to compare and to contrast, and for this reason, the universe, the all, seems to defy definition....Just as no one in his senses would look for the morning news in a dictionary, no one should use speaking and thinking to find out what cannot be spoken or thought.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.