There's nothing wrong with the world. What's wrong is our way of looking at it.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.

Your whole past is like a long sleep which would have been forgotten had there been no memory, but remembrance is there in the blood and the blood is like an ocean in which everything is washed away but that which is new and more substantial even than life - reality.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation... A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.