Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering.

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.