For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

“Among their first questions was said to be: Where are the women?” 

“It was the first time I witnessed the ancient and modern magic of groups in which anyone may speak in turn, everyone must listen, and consensus is more important than time.” 

Yaron has elevated the way Australia perceives circus, both nationally and internationally ... I mean remarkable.

People tend to look great if they feel great.

The less one can think about oneself, the more interesting and attractive one becomes.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

“Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.”

“The contemporary world has turned its back on the attempt and even on the desire to live reasonably.”

“Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any.”

“Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.”

“I like to walk about amidst the beautiful things that adorn the world.”

“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”

“Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.”

“When people ask me why I still have hope and energy after all these years, I always say: Because I travel.” 

The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns

“You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it.” 

“Laughter is an orgasm of the mind.” 

“Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.” 

“When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.”

“When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.”

“Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.” 

“The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.