I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

It’s an already inside outside, The philosophers say it’s the soulBut it’s not the soul: it’s the animal or the man itselfIn its way of existing.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

I'm one of my sensations.

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey’d have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

And I find a happiness in the fact of accepting —In the sublimely scientific and difficult fact of accepting the inevitable natural.

I’d like to have enough time and quietTo think about absolutely nothing, To not ever feel myself living, To only know myself in others’ eyes, reflected.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought.

God gave you the knowledge and ability for you to advance His Kingdom through your work

It turns out your not dyslexic, your just really really stupid.

What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

Seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world.

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

I feel like I've kind of gotten to a peaceful place in my heart.

True self-reliance does not mean reliance on one's physical strength; it means reliance on something mightier, something which is less perishable... It means trusting in the spiritual.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

"I wouldn't be in your position" - old saw. If there is any political move that I would advocate it would be an alliance between America and Red China, if they'd have us.