Echoes

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

The pleasures of the table are for every man, of every land, and no matter of what place in history or society; they can be a part of all his other pleasures, and they last the longest, to console him when he has outlived the rest.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

It is sometimes easier to make the world a better place than to prove you have made the world a better place.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now.

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth.

Example is the best lesson there is.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

Our sadness is not sad, but our cheap joys.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you.

I eat only what is enough to sustain my life. My food is bread, soup, an egg, and a little meat. And the amount I eat is no more than my body can easily digest.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

Well done is better than well said.

Life is a journey, not a destination.

Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

The great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark.

The stomach is not to be loaded, for there is nothing so hostile to thought as a full belly.