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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

It's not what you look like when you are doing what you are doing.  It's what you are doing when you are doing what you look like you are doing.

What doing that you do do, do from being.

Life would be easier if people were good OR bad

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

If you must demonstrate your belief, then do it responsibly.

Tension is who you want to be; relaxation is who you are.

Don't get swung by your own swing.

If you get carried away by your groove, then the rhythm section will feel that and pull you from your pocket.

You gotta be cool - exciting, not excited.

(paraphrased)

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaption of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavor so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.

From hearing, you leap to creative visualization that enables playing in an organic manner from that state of mind (paraphrased)

I was living to run and running to live.  

Never worried about the paying or even how much I owed.

No man has the right to dictate what other men shall perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.

The future ain't what it used to be.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

May the Great Mystery make sunrise in your heart.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Never answer an anonymous letter.

I wish my brother would learn a trade, so I'd know what kind of work he's out of.

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.