There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Introvert hard at work using silence and solitude to recharge.

Whew, that was close! Almost had to socialize.

My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Better to keep quiet and let people think you’re an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

I am rarely bored alone; I am often bored in groups and in crowds.

I think ideas only lead to change for intellectual people; and not even them. What really leads to change is experience. Life itself is the teacher.

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

There are only two great tragedies in life: one is not getting what you want and the other is getting it.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.

The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.

Holding onto your anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Creeds and castes, and all forms of intellectual and emotional grouping, belong to the past.

There’s nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It’s as simple as that.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.