“Constants are few in this every changing world.”

“Behaviour comes from a life of indoctrination.”

“Isolate the changes necessary to bring about the life you most desire.”

“Life should always be concerned with balance.”

“Other people influence your life through their actions and thoughts.”

“Nothing happens in life that you are unable to manage satisfactorily.”

“Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqu."[Letter to Armand Barbs, 12 May 1867]”

“People want things to be complicated, but they have to love themselves first and then each other and then it will seed everywhere”

“History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.”

“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one”

“But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?”

“Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end,...”

“until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always”