Always be ready to release your mind.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
A dining room table with children's eager hungry faces around it, ceases to be a mere dining room table, and becomes an altar.
The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.
New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forests, mountains and deserts of the United States.
I'm just corny enough to like to have a story hit me over the heart.
Rule a kingdom as though you were cooking a small fish - don't overdo it.
I realize that people need something to believe in.
O, ah! The awareness of emptiness brings forth a heart of compassion!