"If you wouldn't live long, live well;..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic.”

“Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession.”

“Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.”

“The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and with little perception of the past or future, lives only for the present. But man, because he is endowed with reason by which he is able to perceive relationships, sees the causes of things, understands the reciprocal nature of cause and effect, makes analogies, easily surveys the whole course of his life, and makes the necessary preparations for its conduct.”

“What I think is that a good life is one hero journey after another. Over and over again, you are called to the realm of adventure, you are called to new horizons. Each time, there is the same problem: do I dare? And then if you do dare, the dangers are there, and the help also, and the fulfillment or the fiasco. There's always the possibility of fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.”

“I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.”

“One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.”

“Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.”

“The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.”