If the devil ever raised a garden, the Everglades was it.

Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

To love what you do and feel that it matters-how could anything be more fun?

I was hooked on aviation, made model airplanes, and never thought I would be able to fly myself. It cost too much. But then World War II came along and changed all that.

The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.

Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace.

None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

Let love be your greatest aim.

If ruling our world stems from developing certainty in our sanity, how do we discover it? The Shambhala teachings instruct us to "put our mind of fearfulness in the cradle of loving-kindnes."

The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait.

The use of violence as an instrument of persuasion is therefore inviting and seems to the discontented to be the only effective protest.