When people are determined, they can overcome fate; when the will is unified, it can mobilize energy. Enlightened people do not even let nature put them in a set mold.
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.
You can give your own intuitive qualities a way to surface by following your heart.
How many chefs when I was a young boy shouted at me during service? All I ever said was "Yes, chef. " The customer is the most important. If the chef overreacts, fine. At the end of service, you apologize.
Pleasure usually takes the form of me and now; joy is us and always.
We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart.