Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

Remember that there is only one important time and it is Now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person with whom you are, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making that person, the one standing at you side, happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life.

Do not be sad about what you do not have. Instead, be happy about what you do have. If you will be sad about what you don't have, you will not be happy about what you do have.

It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

The teaching of the church, theoretically astute, is a lie in practice and a compound of vulgar superstitions and sorcery.

Childhood candor... shall I ever find you again?

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.