One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

Human beings are born of blood, bound by gravity, eventually to perish... fallible by design... destined.

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.

The Paradox of Sustenance: For an organism’s life to be continued

I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

Find a teacher of Tantric Zen and study with them because it is transference of awareness, a sharing of the perception of the beauty of life.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

A man finds room in the few square inches of the face for the traits of all his ancestors; for the expression of all his history, and his wants.

He pulls me over the railing and against his chest, gathering me into his arms, easing an arm under my knees. I press my face into his shoulder, and there is a sudden, hollow silence.

It takes more than industry to industrialize.

I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.