There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

One must be very strong, or very stupid, or completely exhausted to face life with indifference.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."