Of two evils, the less is always to be chosen.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
The power of co-operation makes an impossible situation possible.
I am against all war
If you do everything with the feeling of happiness, there will be no task too difficult to perform.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.
Is life an obstacle course? Sometimes it may feel like it. If you join the military you will be sent around an obstacle course of increasing degrees of difficulty. Why? To increase your strength and stamina and expand your creative capacity under strain. So it is on the course called 'life' - you can choose to perceive people, situations or events as obstacles, or you can choose to use these things to strengthen and expand your capacity to be creative and to find ways round, under, over. The choice lies in your perception. Obstacles are never ever 'out there', they are always in our own minds.
Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In my attitude, that's old, that's tired, that's stale
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
It is allowed on all hands that there is no known connexion between the sensible qualities and the secret powers; and consequently, that the mind is not led to form such a conclusion concerning their constant and regular conjunction, by anything which it knows of their nature.
However vague they are, dreams have a way of concealing themselves and leave us no peace until they are translated into reality, like seeds germinating underground, sure to sprout in their search for the sunlight.
If you are far from the enemy, make him believe you are near.
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
When we encounter good manners, we feel that some deeper part of us has been honoured. Truly, none of us deserves anything less.
