There is no letter of the law to follow in Zen. There is a lot of etiquette, but there are no rules.
It is easy to be a slave to the letter, and difficult to enter into the spirit; easy to obey a number of outward rules, difficult to enter intelligently and self-sacrificingly into the will of God.
This is my letter to the world That never wrote to me
Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table?
I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.
You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.
The only moral it is possible to draw from this story is that one should never throw the Q letter into a privet bush, but unfortunately there are times when it is unavoidable.
Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?
The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.
Love is the most powerful four letter word.
There's so much stuff said about me that's not true, so now if something is hurtful and wrong, I send an e-mail or letter immediately, saying, This is not true.
I read Naoko's letter again and again, and each time I read it I would be filled with the same unbearable sadness I used to feel whenever Naoko stared into my eyes. I had no way to deal with it, no place I could take it to or hide it away. Like the wind passing over my body, it had neither shape nor weight, nor could I wrap myself in it.
When I was a kid and we used to play Post Office, I was the Dead Letter Office.
To my son, If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.
Inspiration comes from the heart. The letter ‘I’ is the heart of F”I”RST… (F Inspiration R S T).
A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof.
There is a big difference between a disappointing friend and a deadly enemy. Of course the Democrats are disappointing. That's what makes them Democrats. If they were any more frustrating they'd be your relatives. But in this country they are all that stands between you and darkest night. You know why their symbol is the letter 'D'? Because it's a grade that means good enough, but just barely. You know why the Republican symbol is 'R'? Because it's the noise a pirate makes when he robs you and feeds you to a shark.
Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.
The reason they call if 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.