If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

From the earliest age on, even as we toy with it, we instinctively know there is something mighty about the truth, that it is an immobile, looming star. We grow to crave it.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

cozy+smell of pancakes-alarm clock=weekend

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

It would be difficult to convince me that leaning has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of my bowling.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

Job and salary is the greatest slavery you can ever set upon yourself

Seek the miracles in a sacred moment.

No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.

Love is much more demanding than law.

Focus Not on Having Less or Having More, But on Wanting What You Have.

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.

Arby's: If I was about to be killed, I would eat it.

In hard times of severe crisis if you want to create new jobs, I recommend you to start killing some people. It's the old "topos" of war in time of peace.