If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.