Maezumi Roshi

Have good trust in yourself … not in the One that you think you should be, but in the One that you are.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Man was born to be rich, or grow rich by use of his faculties, by the union of thought with nature. Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

The soul’s emphasis is always right.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

To be a man’s own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody’s.

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.

The mind is refrigerated by interruption; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book, which he has too diligently studied.

Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable.

My liver swells with bile difficult to repress.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.