It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

I am who I am and that's who I am

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

There are people who exist in this world not like entities but like the speckles or spots on something.

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

But I said that you could still want something that is very unlikely to happen.

Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.

To have family behind you who love you more than words can say gives you so much confidence, because it allows you to go off and be who you want to be.

What affected me the most about the Beatles was that they were the biggest band in the world and they could have done anything they wanted.

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.

Hope is a path on the mountainside. At first there is no path. But then there are people passing that way. And there is a path.

Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those walks for a walking meditation.

The remedy [for the Great Depression] is to give the workers access to the means of production, and let them produce for themselves, not for others, . . . the American way.