You can complain because roses have have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

I think that their flight from and hatred of technology is self-defeating. The Buddha rests quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer of the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower. To think otherwise is to demean the Buddha--which is to demean oneself.

We have two ears and one mouth so we may listen more and talk the less.

No one is ready for a thing until he believes he can acquire it.

A dead thing goes with the stream. Only a living thing can go against it.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Colleges typically did not tell you that ninety percent of your education came after you hung the parchment on the wall. People might ask for a rebate.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.