Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

To glorify the past and paint the future is easy, to survey the present and emerge with some light and understanding is difficult.

Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.