Nature is such as to give rise to conscious beings with minds

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

Hang onto your humanity with all you have. Cherish it. Remember, you are the one in control of your destiny and don’t let anyone else tell you otherwise.

Prayer without gratitude is more like complaining.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)

The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

The concrete is better than the abstract. The detail is better than the commonplace. The sensual [through the senses] is better than the intellectual. The visual is better than the mental.

She must have Egyptian blood. Every time I try to kiss her she says, "Tut, Tut!"

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.

The unfolding time for the end of globalization or a worldwide deflation is much longer, certainly measured in years, if not decades.