Real worship involves waiting.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

to be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.