There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.

The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.

They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now" "But God doesn't change" "Men do though

Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work.

Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you.