Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.

Beauty is a mute deception.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

What I seek to do is to establish the facts as I see them, or as I understand them, and to engage in constructive dialogue to get good outcomes.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

To perceive means to immobilize. To say this is to say that we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

I know from my own clinical work that when people are beaten and hurt, they numb out so that they cant feel anymore.

It is madness for any country to build its policy with an eye to nuclear war.

All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.

[after accepting a gift from a Kenyan woman] You are a woman, aren't you?

Buddhas continue to live on through their teachings as dharma bodies. Their spirits become manifest in the sangha (spiritual community) where their teachings are passed on.