If one's bowels move, one is happy, and if they don't move, one is unhappy. That is all there is to it.

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

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.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.

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.