Zen probably won’t solve a single one of our problems. What it might do is help us relate differently to what we consider problems.

Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s.

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

I am a part of you, and the part of me, that is a part of you, will always be a part of you. That part will never leave you.

Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell].

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.

For love is of God. He is the fountain, author, parent, and commander of love; it is the sum of his law and gospel.

The Russians could not have had any impact whatsoever on voting in America, either how they were cast or how they were counted.

The whole world is put in motion by the wish for riches and the dread of poverty.

I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.