Journeys end in lovers meeting.
I own my life. And only mine. And so I shall appreciate my person. And so I shall make proper use of myself.
As soon as you take out a pencil and paper with the Indians, you're one thing to them - an anthropologist - and what they tell to anthropologists is always distorted.
Peace means loyalty to self. . . . And loyalty to one's self means never a gap between thought, speech, act.
I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!
Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an after-life.
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!