To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.
I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.
When you are present, you can allow the mind to be as it is without getting entangled in it.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Writers are the engineers of human souls.
Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.
Be a lamp, a lifeboat, a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.
I answer the heroic question Death where is thy sting? It is here in my heart and mind and memories
The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.
We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.
In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.
Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
