Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. WE can only record its moods and chronicle their return.

... That may appear as the truth to one personwill often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry theseeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appearedto be different truths are like the countless and apparen

Manyspeak much who cannot speak well.

Silenceis the mother of truth.

If Igive you an idea, and you give me an idea, we will each have two ideas.

It'swhen you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you'rehaving an adventure you wish you were safe at home.

Responsibility is the high price of self-ownership.

Civilization has made the peasantry its pack animal.

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools, even as light that illumines the eye, makes owls blind.

Learning without thought is labour lost,thought without learning is perilous.

It's better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.