The police have enough work to keep them busy regulating automobile traffic, preventing robberies and crimes of violence and helping lost children and little old ladies find their way home. As long as the police confine themselves to such activities they are respected friends of the public. But as soon as they begin inquiring into people's private morals, they become nothing more than armed clergymen.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

Where do I begin and end in space? I have relations to the sun and air which are just as vital parts of my existence as my heart.

You know that if you get in the water and have nothing to hold on to, but try to behave as you would on dry land, you will drown. But if, on the other hand, you trust yourself to the water and let go, you will float. And this is exactly the situation of faith.