There is no spirituality without ethics

I'm not alive to be right. I'm here to care, to heal, to understand

You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won’t fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

Writing for children is an art in itself, and a most interesting one.

...Death, " she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

I've found that many of the greatest ideas surface in bars because that's where many people cultivate inspiration.

We ought to enjoy our food, we ought to take time and care and prepare it correctly, and we ought to have fun doing it and make it a communal event.

If bliss is to scratch an itch, what greater bliss, no itch at all? So too, the worldly, desirous, find some bliss, But greatest is the bliss with no desire

It's a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.