It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

What is to give light must endure burning.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

Purity of heart is to will one thing.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Give up trying to make me give up

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.