Thinking is like loving and dying. Each of us must do it for himself.

Unless you can find some sort of LOYALTY, you cannot find unity and peace in your active living.

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

The world is a progressively realized community of interpretation.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and heart out of my will.

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am utterly unable to discover the certainly unique deed.

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the feelings of other people. I never consciously thought, except after patterns that the world or my fellows set for me.

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit an error, not create it. When we commit an error, we say what was an error already.

Lately I have come to believe that the principle difference between Heaven and Hell is the company you keep there....

Grandmother was like an opal. You could never be sure which colors were really there and which were just tricks of the light.

Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden, a paradise lost. We all now are so mobile, so nomadic .

It's amazing how many people you see on TV. I did my first television show a month ago, and the next day five million television sets were sold. The people who couldn't sell theirs threw them away.

I think the tougher the challenge the better.

Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

Everyone's so nice in Thailand, and it's a beautiful place - the temples, the culture. But everyone's so nice that it's almost inefficient.

Everybodys saying, be skeptical of Wikipedia. That is true. They should also be skeptical of everything. We should all be critical consumers of the media.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.