No person is important enough to make me angry.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love.

maybe, beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts.maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside

There are a million things one might do with a block of wood. But what do you think might happen if someone, just once, believed in it?

First the grub, then the morals.

The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

An old Zen rule of thumb is not to answer until one has been asked three times.

That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.

Fixed formation is bad. Study this well.

A man feels impelled to do something to keep awake.