Ernest Hemingway

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

There are some sick people in this world.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Positive anything is better than negative thinking.

I think every parent, every generation has wanted their children to do better and have a higher standard of living. But I think there’s too much guilt.

There ain’t no freedom when you’ve got a worrying mind.

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Flawed and (still) worthy.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.

I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.