The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

This moment is all there is and LOVE is like the glue that keeps you in it.

Zen is the purest of meditations: just sit silently, doing nothing.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.

If we had been less reliant on technology and the security that we enjoy in being divorced from what we used to know, maybe things would have turned out differently.

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

Good teachers join self and subject and students in the fabric of life.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his.

I guess I am a bit of a traditionalist.