I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

In order to enjoy the inestimable benefits that the liberty of the press ensures, it is necessary to submit to the inevitable evils that it creates.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.

Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware.

Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment.