Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts ... all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.