One hundred and eighty-one years ago, our forefathers started a revolution that still goes on.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the seat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the houses of its children.

The agriculture here arose to produce meat and wine... an agriculture for the royalty and clergy. That is why the earth is poor and barren today. When agriculture takes a wrong turn, culture also goes away.

The gates of Heaven are open wide; off I ride born on a dark cloud... one Yin for every Yang.

Age creeps on apace, all will soon be over;
If only it could be forever as this time it was!
But man's fate is fixed;
From meetings and partings none can ever escape.

Alas! all joy has vanished from my life,
Alone beside the hill.
Never to follow fashion will I stoop,
Then must live lonely still.

Now, the phoenix dispossessed,
In the shrine crows make their nest.
Withered is the jasmine rare,
Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
Light is darkness, darkness day,
Sad at heart I haste away.

Can one gather water lilies from the the boughs of a tree?
When hearts are not at one, the match-maker wearies;
Favor that was but scant is lightly severed...
In our union was no faithfulness, only grief has lasted;
She did not keep her tryst

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

These are my two drops of rain
Waiting on the window-pane…
All the best and all the worst
Comes from which of them is first…
John is there, and John has won!
Look! I told you! Here's the sun!

“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

“Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can't hear, and not bothering.”

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like ‘What about lunch?’

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”

“Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem.”

“ 'Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.' ”