Your children are not your children.    They are the sons and daughters of      Life's longing for itself.  They come   through you but not from you.  And      though they are with you yet they       belong not to you.
"Either this man is dead or my watch    has stopped"
Love gives naught but itself and takes  naught but from itself.  Love possesses not nor would it be possessed.          For love is sufficient unto love.
On children: You may give them your     love but not your thoughts. For they    have their own thoughts. You may house  their bodies but not their souls. For   their souls live in the house of        tomorrow, which you cannot visit...
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure ... it is better for you that you pass out of  love's threshing-floor.  Into the       seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter ...
A dog is the only thing on earth that   loves you more than you love yourself.
Every day, the dog and I, we go for a   tramp in the woods. And he loves it!    Mind you, the tramp is getting a bit    fed up!
If you're not confused, you're not      paying attention.
The best number for a dinner party is   two - myself and a damn good head       waiter.
Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.
Social tact is making your company feel at home, even though you wish they      were.
The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I can hear heavy breathing   again.
Met a guy this morning with a glass     eye. He didn't tell me - it just came   out in the conversation.
That poor man. He's completely          unspoiled by failure.
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
It is only people of small moral        stature who have to stand on their      dignity.
A diplomat is a man who thinks twice    before he says nothing.
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.  Now he's   miserable and depressed.
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
I don't believe in an afterlife,        although I am bringing a change of      underwear.
To its accomplishments it lays no       claim. It loves and nourishes all       things, but does not lord it over them. The Tao, without doing anything, leaves nothing undone.
Wind subsiding, the flowers still fall; Bird crying, the mountain silence       deepens.
The wild geese do not intend to cast    their reflection; the water has no mind to receive their image.
Entering the forest he moves not the    grass;                                  Entering the water he makes not a       ripple.
On enlightenment:                       You cannot get it by taking thought;    You cannot seek it by not taking        thought.
Sitting quietly, doing nothing,         Spring comes, and the grass grows by    itself.
Like a sword that cuts, but cannot cut  itself;                                 Like an eye that sees, but cannot see   itself.
It's a funny old world - a man's lucky  if he can get out of it alive.
The reports of my death are greatly     exaggerated.
Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, when's it going to end?
When a person tells you, "I'll think it over and let you know" - you know.
Hypochondriac: someone who enjoys bad   health.
Well, if I called the wrong number,     why did you answer the phone?
One of the symptoms of approaching      nervous breakdown is the belief that    one's work is terribly important. If I  were a medical man, I should prescribe  a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
A celebrity is someone who works hard   all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being       recognized.
Youth would be an ideal state if it     came a little later in life.
I had to give up masochism - I was      enjoying it too much ...
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The amount of sleep required by the     average person is about five minutes    more.
No civilised person goes to bed the     same day he gets up
There's no secret about success. Did    you ever know a successful man that     didn't tell you all about it.
Behind every successful man there       stands an amazed woman.
To err is human, but it feels divine.
The penalty of success is to be bored   by the people who used to snub you.
What if everything is an illusion and   nothing exists? In that case, I         definitely overpaid for my carpet.
He hasn't got much to say, but at least he doesn't try to say anything else.
I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.