It is better to know nothing than to know what ain’t so.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

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.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

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

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.

There are only two kinds of people, those who accept dogmas and know it, and those who accept dogmas and don't know it.

Ignorance never settle a question.