I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen.
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?
All things are aggregations of atoms that dance & by their movement produce sound. When the rhythm of the dance changes, the sound it produces also changes. . . Each atom perpetually sings its song, and the sound at every moment creates dense subtle forms.
The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.
Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.
Good ideas, like good pickles, are crisp, enduring, and devilishly hard to make.
A distinction of property results from that very protection which a free Government gives to unequal faculties of acquiring it.
I am now half Asian. I have learned all the ancient teachings of Buddi.
We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.