There are dumb actors. But there are dumb politicians and dumb bakers.
[On the volcano. ] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.
There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.
For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.
Each man believes only his experience.
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.
Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.
In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled.
Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
Subatomic particles do not just sit around being subatomic particles. They are beehives of activity.
Build the raft of meditation and self-discipline, to carry you across the river. There will be no ocean, and no rising tides to stop you; this is how comfortable your path shall be.