If you understand a painting beforehand, you might as well not paint it.
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler.
I spent half my money on gambling, alcohol and wild women. The other half I wasted.
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.
Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.
I personally stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.
Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.
There are cases where the slave does not know his servitude and where it is necessary to bring the seed of his liberation to him from the outside: his submission is not enough to justify the tyranny which is imposed upon him.
If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.
The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.