Marry...into a family that will enable your children to feel proud of both sides of the house.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts....

I consider the proper education of our youths one of the most important objects now to be attained and one from which the greatest benefits may be expected.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

We have but one rule here, and that is that every student must be a gentleman.

I did only what my duty demanded. I could have taken no other course without dishonor.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

It is good that war is so terrible, or we should become too fond of it.

I have thought from the time of the cessation of the hostilities, that silence and patience on the part of the South was the true course; and I think so still. Controversy of all kinds will, in my opinion, only serve to continue excitement and passion, and will prevent the public mind from the acknowledgement and acceptance of the truth.

Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have toiled & saved that they may leave something to their families deprived of their care & the support of their labour, is to my mind the worst of crimes.

Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper.

I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than the dissolution of the Union. It would be an accumulation of all the evils we complain of, and I am willing to sacrifice everything but honor for its preservation.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive

Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.

For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses.

If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.

We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.

The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

It's the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top.

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.

(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong. And who really can forget the past? What else is there to know?

We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with no artistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all, and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly.

The pencil is mightier than the pen.

Absence of Quality is the essence of squareness.

Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind. I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle. I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with the emphasis on "good" rather than on "time"....

The more you read, the more you calm down.

If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.

The more you look, the more you see.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

Mental reflection is so much more interesting than TV it's a shame more people don't switch over to it.

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened.