Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.

The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents and wilds burst forth with it.

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice.

My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.

Friendship is a vase, which, when it is flawed by heat, or violence, or accident, may as well be broken at once; it can never be trusted after.

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end.

Sometimes the best way to solve your own problems is to help someone else

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream...and life continues.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

If we are to change America, we must change the United States Congress.

Nobody in college races home and says, 'I can't wait to see the news! I can't wait to see who CBS is going to hire!'

When I was a young kid I loved Don Rickles, Buddy Hackett and Jackie Vernon.

One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.