The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

It was time to let go of the mad desire to remember. It was time to start living whatever life would come. In the present, not the past.

Seekers, what are you seeking? Why aren't you happy just to be alive?

When you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

The most relevant misadventure that I had, as a kid, is when I remember being pretty convinced that leprechauns were real and that I was going to catch one.

Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

When you get as old as I am, you start to realize that you've told most of the good stuff you know to other people anyway.

When you are saying you want to feel good, what you really are saying is you want to feel God: I want my thoughts to be the same as the source from which I emanated.