“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!”

“Time is the most valuable thing that a man can spend.”

“We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.”

“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge, both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.”

“We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”