Though I cannot flee from the world of corruption, I can prepare tea with water from a mountain stream and put my heart to rest

Shape I may take, converse I may, but neither god nor Buddha am I, rather an insensate being whose heart thus differs from that of man.

The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines. Long night clear evening--what are they for?

Without a constant livelihood, there will be no constant heart.

In friendship, bond not with a shallow man.

Security is not a license for people in authority to hide the tactics they would never openly admit to using.

The States acceded to the Union.

If you want it and you dream about it...there's nothing that's going to stop you.

The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it can be, and is, all these things at once and the same time.

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

No matter what information you have, no matter what you are doing, you can be wrong.

The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar.

I care much more about the growth rate of the market than it's current size and I also care if there's any reason it's going to top out.

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.