Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

If people feel lost and alone and helpless and broken and hopeless today, what will it be like if the world really begins to come apart at the hinges?

The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

The first person I click on can't be the right choice.

Your worst putt will usually be as good as your best chip.

What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has or how he is regarded by others.

The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting.

Step beyond your role as a perceiver, merge everything into the flux.

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.