There is a saying in China that the nature of man is found there, in the center, where emotions are not yet manifest. In this center is the potentiality of everything to come.

We now should be able to see cosmos and individual joined in a relationship. We should see that macrocosm and microcosm are, as it were, only far-flung parts of one unified energy center.

If intellect and will are correctly centered, the emotional life takes on harmony.

Only true rebelliousness can change the world for the better. Be rebellious.

You are not better than your thought... As a man thinks so is he..

Any day could be your last day of existence?

There's something comforting about the companionship of animals in a new place.

Nature can do more than physicians.

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

The ethos of not fooling yourself is one of the best you could possibly have. It's powerful because it's so rare.

We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.

My father had a varied ear, from Hank Williams to Ravel.

O Monsieur de Sergis, how important a matter is submission of spirit to a superior!