Never date a woman you can hear ticking.

Have you ever dated someone because you were too lazy to commit suicide?

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow - it empties today of strength.

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

[W]e shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.