You can lie to yourself about all kinds of things. Until you can't, anymore. Until reality pounds a hole through your fantasy castle and the reality check must be cashed in.

His smile is too beautiful for this world, and I am dying of love.

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation but as a question.[A caution he gives his students, to be wary of dogmatism.]

for those memories are nowjust like these little kittensI hold in my handsthose can be kissedand treasuredbut not held too tightly.

Elsewhere is within

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

Believe that you can whip the enemy and you have won half the battle.

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

The health and vigor necessary for the practice of what is good, depend equally on both mind and body.

Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.

Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.

Indoors or out, no one relaxes In March, that month of wind and taxes, The wind will presently disappear, The taxes last us all the year.