"The more princes abstain from touching the wealth of their people, the greater will be their resources in the wants of the state."

“One of my students had written wistfully of a dream-school that would have "windows with trees in them.”

Source : Bel Kaufman (1964). “Up the Down Stair Case”

“A truly extraordinary work: vivid, passionate and utterly compelling. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is raw as a wound. It opens a world that is strange, brutal and poetic at once and ultimately achieves the kind of spirit-healing few novels do”

“I will laugh at the world! Never will I allow myself to become so important, so wise, so dignified, so powerful, that I forget how to laugh at myself and my world.And so long as I can Laugh never will I be poor”

“Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.”

“I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.”

“You know...my flower...I'm responsible for her. And she's so weak! And so naive. She has four ridiculous thorns to defend her against the world...”

“I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'”

“I don’t like Drake as a person. He’s just fake to me.”