Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.

The folly of endless consumerism sends us on a wild goose-chase for happiness through materialism.

People have some really crazy ideas about love, friends and relationships. They have the absurd belief that their friends, children, family, lovers and companions can make them happy.

Education should prepare our minds to use its own powers of reason and conception rather than filling it with the accumulated misconceptions of the past.