Relationship is a mirror in which you can see yourself, not as you would wish to be, but as you are.
The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.
When you identify yourself with a group of people or a set of ideas, aren't you separating yourself?
Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.
I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.
When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.
The greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources
We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink. [Ger., Neuere Poeten thun viel Wasser in die Tinte.]
He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.
That's how things are these days: everything must move aside to make room for the new, all the time.
Some said, "John, print it"; others said "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."
Books, in the plural lose their solidity of substance and become a gas, filling all available space.
When I write my songs, I'm writing about the pain, the joy, and the ridiculousness of being a human.
Few things are more pleasant than a village graced with a good church, a good priest and a good pub.
I have ever thought so superstitiously of wit, that I fear I have committed idolatry against wisdom.
A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.
I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer.
I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.
I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.
I don't believe in synergy. I believe that things have to be specific to the medium that they're in.
It’s hard to say goodbye to the place you’ve lived. It can be as hard as saying goodbye to a person.
Or maybe...their biggest fear is that they will get close to you again, and you'll go and drop dead.
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
Those who are scandalized by a naked body--thinks the Devil--are easy prey: they are already doomed.
To be young is to live in the hope of escaping youth; to be old, in the despair of having succeeded.
No one in the world was ever you before, with your particular gifts and abilities and possibilities.
It takes courage to do what you want. Other people have a lot of plans for you... Follow your bliss.
There is a God inside my PC. An Old-Testament God with lots of arbitrary rules and utterly no mercy.
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.
Let your cry be for free souls rather than for freedom. Moral liberty is the only important liberty.
The Rationalist case needs no straining of evidence and always gains by the severest self-criticism.
I actually believe in simplicity as a way of life. My wife and I are considering moving into a yurt!