When everything is finished, the mornings are sad.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

I stop wanting what I am looking for, looking for it.

Night is a world lit by itself.

The shadows: some hide, others reveal.

One lives in the hope of becoming a memory.

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.

I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.

I know what I have given you, I do not know what you have received.

Situated in some nebulous distance I do what I do so that the universal balance of which I am a part may remain a balance.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Saigon is hot, full of atmosphere, activity, and commerce.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.

No one fails alone and no one succeeds alone.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207