"If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off."

"The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy."

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him."

"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy"

"If you understand others you are smart.If you understand yourself you are illuminated.If you overcome others you are powerful.If you overcome yourself you have strength.If you know how to be satisfied you are rich.If you can act with vigor, you have a will.If you don't lose your objectives you can be long-lasting.If you die without loss, you are eternal."

"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."

"It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way."

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

"I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance."

"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes."

"Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?" ...Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, "We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay."

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all."

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."

"Philosophy begins in wonder."

"There are no facts, only interpretations."

"The philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point, however, is to change it."

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."