Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain. |
Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do. |
I am only a man … who knows that he’ll never understand all that is around him. |
it's better to get something worthwhile done using deception than to fail to get something worthwhile done using truth. |
Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use. |
My laughter … is real, but it is also controlled folly because it is useless; it changes nothing and yet I still choose to do it. … I am happy because I choose to look at things that make me happy… |
That is the misfortune of human beings. None of us have sufficient time, and your continuity has no meaning in this awesome, mysterious world. |
The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die. |
The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same. |
The world around us is a mystery, and men are no better than anything else. |
The world is a mystery. This, what you’re looking at, is not all there is to it. There is much more to the world, so much more, in fact, that it is endless. So when you’re trying to figure it out, all you’re really doing is trying to make the world familiar. You and I are right here, in the world that you call real, simply because we both know it. |
There are worlds upon worlds, right here in front of us. And they are nothing to laugh at. |
They took money away from us for years, and we never got it back. |
To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that. |
To believe the world is only as you think it is, is stupid. |