What would you be like if you were the only person in the world? If you want to be truly happy you must be that person.

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

I never spend my time doing anything I'll have to do again tomorrow.

For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

The world now seems a stunningly ignoble place. It has not really grown all that much worse but appears to have done so because we know so much more about it than we did.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.