Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

A man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.