The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.

The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.

Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

She said that the planting of trees, like the education of children, was a gift to the future.

When you talk about peace through strength, what you're talking about is the concept of deterrence.

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

Every live thing is a survivor on a kind of extended emergency bivouac.

I really do love bluesy-jazzy music, so I love Etta James, B.B. King and Billie Holiday. I love that they have soul in their voices - I think that's something important is having.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

Only recently, during the nineteenth century, and then only in Europe, do we meet forms of the state which have been created by a deliberate national feeling.

The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.