Who lives to Nature, rarely can be poor ; who lives to fancy, never can be rich.

How blessings brighten as they take their flight.

Too low they build who build below the skies.

A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Early, bright, transient, chaste as morning dew, She sparkled, was exhaled, and went to heaven.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.

Leisure is pain; take off our chariot wheels; how heavily we drag the load of life!

Mine is the night, with all her stars.

A safe and inclusive society is worthless if a person cannot speak their mind. Censorship and manufactured outrage are the problem and not the solution.

SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake, Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

I hate decaffeinated coffee. It's useless brown water.

Our listeners asked us: "What is chaos?" We're answering: "We do not comment on economic policy."

For decades the American people have had an addiction to oil and gas.

If this is death, Guild Hunter,he thought to his mortal as angelfire scored through his bones and touched his heart, then I will see you on the other side.

If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course!

You want to eliminate your evil desires in order to reveal your Buddha nature, but where will you throw them away?