There should be a separate line to scrutinize anybody with the name Abdul or Ahmed or Mohammed.
His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.
Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States.
Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed.
And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap. . . it drive me nuts sometimes. . . I want to kick them out immediately. . . I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women. . . they're all masochists at heart.
Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.
Fragility of modern world leaves me with the idea we'd better anticipate what's going on. We take our right steps today and now. And we'd better avoid, that we are overdependent on, let's say, the internet.
With my schedule being so crazy, I can't call every day or hang out with my friends like I used to and that's definitely sad.