Happiness depends on sound sleep, orderly bowels and regular meals.

Sometimes it's worth lingering on the journey for a while before getting to the destination.

Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.

To believe in the possibilities of self is to unleash the power of the spirit quieted by doubt ~

It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being.

Just practice hard and stay grounded. Treat people like you want to be treated and work hard.

I worry that even well-intentioned attempts to "improve nature" (say by reducing suffering) will make things worse even in their own terms.

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.

You were hidden behind walls of ice; no man had passed them; I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.

love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit

For a long time I had not approached the forbidden fruit called happiness, but it was now tempting me with a melancholy persistence. I felt as though Sonoko were an abyss above which I stood poised.