You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
When you are on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further away, then you realize that the real end is the journey.
All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.
Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging. . . in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.
A thousand secrets are hidden in simply sitting still.
For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.
Belief is not truly belief while doubt can still touch it.
I find the idea of vigilante justice very attractive. I like the idea that the murderer decides that this person has gone too far, and nothing will happen to him unless she does something to stop him.
On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Wherever her temple stands, and so long as it is duly honored, there is a foundation for general security, general happiness, and the improvement and progress of our race.
I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.