A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Education is the beautification of the inner world, which in turn help beautifies the outer world we lived in.

Your imagination can take you to the best and worst places. It is a ship on a sea of dreams and it's up to you to steer it.

You don't get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners.

She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?

If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do traditional Japanese practice, which is not that traditional actually.

They put me in the drama class, and that's the path I've taken.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.

Every thing is of the nature of no thing.

What's wrong with technology is that it's not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that.