“When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.”

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.

The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.

The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.

A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.

Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.

The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.

Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

Permaculture is the conscious design and maintenance of agriculturally productive ecosystems which have the diversity, stability, and resilience of natural ecosystems.

In order to become more influential with those who are resistant to our point of view, we must be willing to start with what is influencing them.

But when you have order, you don’t need Gods. When everything is well ordered and disciplined then nothing is unexpected.

In order to play and write, it’s unique – you either do one or the other.

History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.

You look at the states [Barack] Obama won and wonder, well, where would Hillary Clinton have a problem and where does Donald Trump have problems?

Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.