Always take an emergency leisurely.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

Teachers open doors, but you must enter by yourself.

If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.

He who is afraid of suffering, is already suffering fear. Out of fear, true creativity is blocked.

You have two lives the second one begins when you realize you only have one

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Misfortune comes to all men.

Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)

And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.

Hair of the dog and to keep me company I made a drink.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

Those trees are your lungs. The earth recycles as your body. The rivers recycle as your circulation. The air is your breath. So what do we call the environment?

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing. It's the timing that's all-important.

I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes.

Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever.