If you want to be happy, practise it every day

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

I'm not an anarchist any longer, because I've concluded that anarchism is an impractical ideal.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time.

We all see only that which we are trained to see.