No ghosts need

A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones.

Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

The ways of fate are indeed hard to understand. If there is not some compensation hereafter, then the world is a cruel jest.

The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

There is a soul-jealousy that can be as frantic as any body-jealousy.

Anything is better than stagnation.

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

Tell your good news as an evangelist would. Do so with a passion driven by a need to help and solve problems that some people didn’t even know they had.

Trust creates the sharing of ideas, plans, and feelings that becomes a gift that you can treasure.

Your immediate experience is Tantric Zen. How aware are you of your immediate experience? - Probably not that aware.

I'm the best. That's why I'm so relaxed out there. You've got to have some arrogant bones in your body, especially to be a pitcher in the big leagues.

There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.

Writers need restrictions. If somebody just says, "Hey, do you want to write a novel, or an article, or a movie, or a short story, you get shut down."

Let us run up debts. One is nobody without debts.

A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

To me, bitterness is the under-arm odor of wishful weakness. It is the graceless acknowledgment of defeat.