Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
My mom told me to do whatever I wanted to do and don't get too anxious about it.
If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.
We have two natures within us, both struggling for mastery. Which one will dominate us? It depends on which one we feed.
It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.
A stranger may find beauty in you yet.
I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.