"The hammer never complains of the noise."

"Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be."

"The real plague is willful ignorance and education can't cure that."

"One's duty is always and everywhere to be true to one's own experience."

"There is peace in knowing that whatever one thinks it is not the truth."

"I don't travel to learn about the world. I travel for the joy of traveling."

"Boredom is the price one pays for not enjoying everything."

"Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it."

"When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do."

"Obsession is the evil genie who turns pleasure into pain."

"Experience is true, but not the lessons it teaches."

"Look up at the moon, don't think about yourself."

"What makes or breaks us ultimately is our attitude toward the things we can't control."

"All our prayers can't keep a single leaf from falling."

"A scent of lavender cannot be put into words."

"You are free to create your own way of being. There are no rules."

"What kind of god would create a world in which the means of survival depends on our eating each other?"

"Life is simple. You just have to stop trying to figure it out."

"Skepticism precludes one from believing many things, but not from loving many things."

"How beautiful to touch another's soul with a word, a gesture, a thought."

"Distance is a bridge, not a gulf, between lovers."

"What do I know about life? What does a windmill know about the wind?"

"Cruelty is the surest sign of stupidity."

"Be what you are not. The true self is no one."

"We reach the end of our lives long before we reach the end of ourselves."

"One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects."

"Grace rides inside the waves."

"Better to find one thing to live for than a thousand things to be against."

"Being different isn't a sin, but intolerance is."

"There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself."

"The only valid rule for a work of art is that it be true to itself."

"Behind every mask there is a face, and behind that a story."

"Feelings of superiority always stem from an illusion."

"Sorrow's children were raised on books."

"A mask can hide you from others, but not from yourself."

"Diseases aren't cured by giving them a name."

"Intuition: the feeling you know something when you know nothing."

"There are no sad days, only sad thoughts."

"The story of the tree is written on every leaf."

"You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently."

"Desires are only a problem when the means to fulfill them are not available."

"Life itself is the lesson."

"Love people, not places. Places don't miss you when you're gone."

"Trees, O trees, why can't you hold on to your leaves?"

"The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night."

"We humans are like squirrels who spend all summer gathering and hoarding nuts and when winter comes can't remember where they are."

"It's during a storm that the best songs get written."

"The more idealism proves futile, the more I respect idealists."

"The sight of a worm excites my reverence more than all the gods men have invented."

"Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence."