How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

And it's really very difficult to kill someone when all your inner instincts would oblige you to take off your hat first!

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

I sleep and sleep and sleep, yet I still have an unquenchable thirst for it.

It is never over until you are greatly rewarded for all your blood, sweat and tears.

If he had to spend the evening with madwomen, he would prefer at least one of them be willing to let him grope her.

Mr. [Richard M.] Nixon never has anything but hindsight.

Turbulence, like many forms of trouble, cannot always be seen. We bounce so hard my arms sail helplessly above my head. In evolution, wing bones became arms and hands; perhaps I'm de-evolving.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Why are we sitting? Why are we practicing? Why are we doing anything? It's not so I can be happy. It's so I can embody the dharma in order to benefit other beings.

If there is a good will, there is great way.