For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

Don’t think about happiness. If it doesn’t come, there’s no disappointment; if it does come, it’s a surprise.

A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

Folly is as great as the sea, it will compass anything.

Pity is an emotion equally unpleasant to the bestower as to the recipient.

I don't talk with everybody because i am not everybody, i am single.

I had come to the canyon with expectations. I wanted to see snowy egrets flying against the black schist at dusk

Because it takes more courage to heal the world's hurts than to inflict them.

When we appear to be “more a loser than a victor” on the Path it is easy to lose sight of the fact that we are growing spiritually.

The bags that teachers carry home symbolize their guilt about the endless care they have to give.

The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

There was an old man of Orleans, Who was given to eating of beans; Till once out of sport, he swallowed a quart, That dyspeptic old man of Orleans.

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture.

As a government employee, you can't testify against the government.

We don't all agree on everything. I don't agree with myself on everything.