The nice thing about meditation is it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possiblility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.

You can have power over people as long as you don't takeeverything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he'sno longer in your power.

Talkingmuch about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Symanpathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well

Life is like a mirror. smile at it, and it is charming; frown at it, and it becomes sinister.

The Universe is not only queerer that we imagine, it is queered than we can imagine.

Religion is behaviour and not mere belief.

Ifyou are leaning over to starboard to balance the boat against the other guy'spropensity to lean too far to port, both of you are about to get wet.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.

Bytrying often, the monkey learns to jump from the tree.