"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world."

"Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen."

"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

"It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second."

"Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."

"The greatest deception is forgetting that the most profound truths are found in silence."

"Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment."

"What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."