Quality tends to fan out like waves. The Quality job he didn't think anyone was going to see was seen, and the person who feels it is a little bit better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling onto others, and in that way the Quality tends to keep going.

I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.

99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

Objects are inorganic and biological values; subjects are social and intellectual values.

A person who follows the dharma is unpredictable because the dharma is unpredictable.