The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

Actually 'bad' doesn't do justice to my handwriting. Neither does 'handwriting.' 'Desecration of paper' about covers it.

In no way did I allow reality as it was to intrude on reality as I wanted it to be.

...an obsession is a way for damaged people to damage themselves more.

Leaders should know how fast time runs and how faster they can beat it. Poor leaders run slowly till time overtakes them.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.

You never lose friends. You just discover who your real friends are.

A radiant full moon of silver hangs in the black sky, between the veils of misty clouds.

Everyone dies. That is a universal constant. The only variable is how one dies.

You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

The theory of Zen is non-competition. But that is not really true at all. People who practice Zen are very competitive. They are competing against emptiness.

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?'

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

Don't look for the next opportunity, the one you have in hand is the opportunity.