A.A. Milne

Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

People will try to fix world but world will fix people.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.

You can’t change what you don’t acknowledge.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

If someone out there doesn’t agree with me, then somewhere a village is missing their idiot.

When I went to our American history books to learn how our forefathers harrowed the land, I discovered that the historians knew nothing about harrows. Yet our country has depended more on harrows than on guns or speeches. I thought that a history which excluded harrows, and all the rest of daily life, was bunk. And I think so yet.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don’t carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.