Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is.

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.

I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.

If you don't have a whole lot of unsatisfied people, the economy stops dead, doesn't it?

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.

I finally understood that I couldn’t avoid working to provide for myself, but that can also be a wonderfulthing, a beautiful thing.

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies.

I am unpersuaded that relative poverty and hard work are greater adversities than relative affluence and free time.

The more you give, the more you have much to keep giving.

Never despair. Never surrender.

It is possible to be happy without having perfect health . . . Thank goodness my happiness doesn't come from my joints, but from my heart.

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain

No girl who is going to marry need bother to win a college degree; she just naturally becomes a "Master of Arts" and a "Doctor of Philosophy" after catering to an ordinary man for a few years.

We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.

I never buy a piece of art. I don't see the point in buying something because I know my eyes will get bored of it eventually.

The softest of stuff in the world, penetrates quickly the hardest, insubstantial, it enters where there is no room.

Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.