If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.
There are far more reasons for death than there are for life.
Of course we got drunk!" Semyon said. "It's okay to get drunk, Anton. If you need to real bad. Only you have to get drunk on vodka. Cognac and wine—that's all for the heart. " "So what's vodka for?" "For the soul. If it's hurting real bad
What was my truth worth, if I was prepared to defend the entire world, but not those who were close to me? If I subdued hate, but wouldn't give love a chance?
What an unfortunate instrument the guitar is! An instrument of such great nobility, a genuine monarch of music-- reduced to a pitiful lump of wood with six strings, constantly abused by people with no ear and no voice.
I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.
Love is a great power, and such a strange power.
The stuff that I've been doing lately is political. It's not always about people who are super famous movie stars. The fact that people are still taking a chance and listening to the blacklist episodes is really exciting.
Part broken - part whole, you begin again. ( from 'Why books seem shockproof against change. ' THE TIMES: BOOKS)
The spirit is so near that you can't see it! But reach for it. . . don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.
I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's. His hair was perfect.