Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.
Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
Thinking is harder work than hard work.
Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.
People say: idle curiosity. The one thing that curiosity cannot be is idle.
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control, and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating. Let your body remain as it is, your breath as you find it, and remain in your natural condition of unchanging pure awareness.
Our Poets make us laugh at Tragœdy, And with their Comoedies they make us cry.
I think that if you have a sense of the sacredness of nature and of human relations, I think you will be uplifted in some sort of spiritual elevation.
I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.