“It will soon be difficult to put up a shelf without a degree in shelf putting up.”

“Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.”

“Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.”

“It's senseless to think of complaining, since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are .”

“Being safe is fiction.”

“Education is like pruning ; it wrecks the natural growth of the tree in favour of a form that is useful to commercial society”

“When people say " I just don't have enough time " they mean " I prioritized something else.”