"Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity."

“The essence of pleasure is spontaneity.”

Source : Germaine Greer (1970). “The female eunuch”, Macgibbon & Kee

“When you got a guy hanging over the cliff holding on with one hand, you don't want him to get his other hand up there, you want to go ahead and stomp on it”

“Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I have heard stories about people who are just plain rude to the press or fans.”

“For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'today' does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply 'today'...But you yourself are eternally the same. In your 'today' you will make all that is to exist tomorrow and thereafter, and in your 'today' you have made all that existed yesterday and for ever before.”

“Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.”

Source : Clarence Jordan (2005). “The Substance of Faith: and Other Cotton Patch Sermons”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.”

“If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang.”

“Pride is never sinful when it is Justice.”

Source : Barbara Chase-Riboud (1989). “Echo of lions”, William Morrow & Co