This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.
Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.
In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.
And the thing which is missing is love, some feeling for, as well as some understanding of, the inclusive community of rocks and soils, plants and animals, of which we are a part.
It is disastrous to own more of anything than you can possess, and it is one of the most fundamental laws of human nature that our power actually to possess is limited.
Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?
Muhammad Ali put an end to the idea that you can't be an American and a Muslim.
Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.
I have to keep Dune perfume in my dressing room, because I always wear it, but I must never put it on in case it makes me choke.
I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.