There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.

Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Say "Yes" to the seedlings and a giant forest cleaves the sky. Say "Yes" to the universe and the planets become your neighbors. Say "Yes" to dreams of love and freedom. It is the password to utopia.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

The dreams that were buried the deepest were the hardest to get rid of.

Do not believe all that you hear and see.Always check the original source of information.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

When you're running for president, I think you have an obligation to be healthy. I just don't think you can do the work if you're not healthy.

There was once a community of scoundrels, that is to say, they were not scoundrels, but ordinary people.

The best thing that you can do to this world is to be joyous. Being joyful, is the greatest offering you can make to the world.

Zen provides a structure that supports our exploring the practice and the teachings for ourselves.

The internet is something created largely by public funding.

My Dad wanted me to be able to play with him and my brothers. I was the only girl!