Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.