Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Through fasting. . . I have found a perfect health, a new state of existence, a feeling of purity and happiness, something unknown to humans.
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance of past grief becomes a source of present pleasure - such is the strange alchemy of the spirit.
Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
Dad, as a good American, believed his newspapers.
When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something. The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.
Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.