The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.

The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

We shall be permitted to live on this planet only for as long as we treat all nature with compassion and intelligence.