Good-humor makes all things tolerable.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.

As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

The thistle is a prince. Let any man that has an eye for beauty take a view of the whole plant, and where will he see a more expressive grace and symmetry; and where is there a more kingly flower?

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.

Interfering in the worldly life is impure action (ashuddha vyavahar).

Moments without you made me realize How Idle I am in my life

We got to push to give, and one life to live.

There is one and only one responsibility of business: to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game.

We always use plywood rather than MDF for structural stuff for the same reasons [stability].

we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.

Not just personal unhappiness but all strife in life, including war, is the result of an over-emphasis on temporary things; money, power and material possession

I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].

When we mistake words for reality, we are subject to the tyranny of words.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.