A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

You can force the people to obey; you cannot force them to understand.

The wise never doubt. The Humane never worry. The brave never fear.

The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

He said : Not to know the decree is to be without the means of being a proper man. 2. Not to know the rites is to be without means to construct. 3. Not to know words is to be without the fluid needful to understand men.

Life is simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.

Probably I dont believe in a lot of things that I used to believe in but that doesnt mean I dont believe in anything.

The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in a many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

I ain't got an original thought in my head. If it ain't got the scent of divinity to it, I ain't interested in it