Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

At their first appearance innovators have always been derided as fools and mad men.

When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she—or he, of course, as the case may be—must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering.

Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

Only times and places, only names and ghosts.

I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and all without strain...by taking lessons in seeing...optometrists hate the method.

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.