Keep your hand on the helm.

One takes what the river offers, both good and bad. The joy of living by running water far outweighs the sorrow.

Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

A human being can only take so much when their basic rights as a citizen of the earth are being denied to them – or sold at a high cost.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion.

The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost will.

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

I love the love of those who are far enough away, it becomes whatever I wish to believe it.

Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.