The page is to the story as the seed is to the flower.

Deep down, fundamentally, we are the 'unborn'. We never came into being and we never go out of being. All of these coming and goings are just pulses in the pattern

When you walking along naturally, you're walking in the harmony of the Unborn.

In criticizing, the teacher is hoping to teach. That's all.

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun.Un-slumping yourselfis not easily done.

Love exists at all times.

A good reputation is better than great riches.

I wasn't exactly good with children. I wasn't bad with them, as such. I just wasn't around them much and, because of that, when I was, they freaked me out because I didn't know what to do with them.

One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

The best enjoyment is half disappointment to what we intend or would have in this world.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.

Life is a self-fulfilling prophecy. What you believe about Life will be your experience of Life.