“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”

“What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can.”

“Poetry is the greatest literature, and pleasure in poetry is the greatest of literary pleasures. It is also the least easy to attain and there are some people who never do attain it.”

“One of my greatest pleasures in life is promising myself I will not drink, or smoke, or take coke, or do heroin, or eat cookies, then doing it. It’s a pleasure that can be repeated daily.”

“The moment is your only duty. Your duty at any time in your life is to do what you have to do from moment to moment. What you have to do is what you cannot avoid doing. What you cannot avoid doing is what you do.”

“The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.”

“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

“Girl, you don't know what you're puttin' through. It's a business doing pleasure, a business doing pleasure with you.”

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”