"Let's put a limit to the scramble for money. ... Having got what you wanted, you ought to begin to bring that struggle to an end."

“Find good in what the world says is evil.”

“What I've found is that there is a tremendous interest in these issues, across the political spectrum, sort of left-right terms we used to describe people don't really hold here exactly.”

“To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.”

“When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.51, Macmillan

“Hey, I work one full hour a day!”

“It is untrue that fiction is nonutilitarian. The uses of fiction are synonymous with the uses of literature. They include refreshment, clarification of life, self-awareness, expansion of our range of experiences, and enlargement of our sense of understanding and discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty , and understanding. Like literature generally, fiction is a form of discovery, perception, intensification, expression, beauty, and understanding. If it is all these things, the question of whether it is a legitimate use of time should not even arise.”

Source : Leland Ryken (2003). “Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective”, p.180, Wipf and Stock Publishers

“Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.”

“We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others.”