"The people who are most sure about everything are the least likely to know anything."

"Words are like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced."

"Happiness is a by-product of an effort to make someone else happy."

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and to find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'Try to be a little kinder.'"

"The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature."