If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

The nature of things is to have no nature; it is their non-nature that is their nature. For they have only one nature: no-nature.

Neither from itself nor from another, nor from both, nor without a cause, does anything whatever, anywhere arise.

Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.

She used to be all right, Una, when we were kids. I liked that she wasn't fussed about her antlers.

Are we always to be wantingwhat isn't:the greenest grassaccord and principlemotherhood and career?Yet our age lies to uslike an asp, whispering. "Both.

Why should a blacksmith put his hands in the fire if he has tongs?

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that

Everything I've done, I've done because I wanted to do it. In doing it, I've plunged in headlong, always believing in it.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

Great Brahma from his mystic heaven groans, And all his priesthood moans.

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.