In the olden days in England, you could be hung for stealing a sheep or a loaf of bread. However, if a sheep stole a loaf of bread and gave it to you, you would only be tried for receiving, a crime punishable by forty lashes with the cat or the dog,

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.

In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, delve deep into the heart. In dealing with others, be gentle and kind. In speech, be true. In work, be competent. In action, be careful of your timing.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.

Men are superior to women.

"If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn't get very far."

All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for fun. Money's just the way we keep score.

Brahma said: Well, after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool is no wiser. But an intelligent man needs only two thousand five hundred.

I'm glad I was not born before tea.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

An ounce of mother is worth a ton of priest.

Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as `all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.'

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

The man-hating woman, like the cold woman, is largely imaginary. She is simply a woman who has done her best to snare a man and has failed.

The best you get is an even break.

The individual choice of garnishment of a burger can be an important point to the consumer in this day when individualism is an increasingly important thing to people.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

It's not so hard to lift yourself by your bootstraps once you're off the ground.

Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit. [There is no great genius without some touch of madness.]

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation.

Some women should be beaten regularly, like gongs.