Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.
Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.
Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.
Books are humanity in print.
Government remains the paramount area of folly because it is there that men seek power over others - only to lose it over themselves.
Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out of yourself for ever.
How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it
It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition.