Over the wintry forest, winds howl in rage with no leaves to blow.

Watch birth and death:The lotus has alreadyOpened its flower.

But facts, remembered or not, are all, alas, still facts

The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

It is painfully easy to define human beings. They are beings who, for no good reason at all, create their own unnecessary suffering.

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

People may make fun of me because I’m wearing something odd, but it’s still good to be alive.

It’s so unrewarding, being a woman.

Living as I do with human beings, the more that I observe them, the more I am forced to conclude that they are selfish.

There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.

Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

Singing diminishes sorrow.

...and the vessel was not full, his intellect was not satisfied, his soul was not at peace, his heart was not still.

The world's biggest tree, the redwood tree was once a little nut that just kept growing regardless of weather.

It's easy to have a complicated idea. It's very hard to have a simple idea.

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

If it's not true, don't say it; if it's not right, don't do it.

Many men honestly do not know what women want, and women honestly do not know why men find what they want so hard to comprehend and deliver.

Sir, if you don't pay this bill by the close of business on Friday; we will be forced to disconnect your service.

I listened a little to punk when I was younger, but it was straight edge punk. It was nothing like what is going on now, like poppy punk.