There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments.
America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.
The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.
Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone. His own burden in his own way.
The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few and they are more beautiful if they are a few.
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too.
Duration is not a test of truth or falsehood.