Logan Pearsall Smith

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.

If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.