The fundamental human values all emanate from Dharma, based on Truth. If human behaviour has no such basis, it leads to disaster.
What is genius, anyway, if it isn't the ability to give an adequate response to a great challenge?
It was like that. Sometimes I'd go for a period—days or weeks—without feeling the full sweep of my loss, and then as unexpected as a thunderclap, the realization would rip the protective coating from my senses. Maybe that's the way it is with trick knees and aging griefs. Totally pain free one moment and absorbingly painful the next.
I wondered if a blessing is still a blessing if it lasts for only a little while.
Even if you forget everything else I want you to always remember that you are a person of value, and you have a friend who loved you enough to give you his most valued possession.
I believe that love is better than hate. And that there is more nobility in building a chicken coop than in destroying a cathedral.
It seems to me that a man who is incapable of humor is capable of cruelty.
I'm quite good at leaning against a bar.
A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.
Do not mistake desire for love. Desire leaves home in a frantic search for one gratification after another. Love is at home with itself.
The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.