He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.

He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.

Like your zodiac sign?' Percy asked. 'I'm a Leo.''No, stupid, ' Leo said. 'I'm a Leo. You're a Percy.

Maturity is the light for the buds to bloom!

It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor the world over.

For the first time since her return, she felt pain, a violent pain, but it made her feel alive, because it was worth feeling.

If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

I said I 'liked' being half-educated; you were so much more 'surprised' at everything when you were ignorant.

Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open.

I would say that one of the things I wish I could do differently would be to be more outgoing.

Writing is hard for everybody except fools.

I'd catch moonlight in a bottle, if we could drink a toast to happiness.