“Things oughtn’t to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them.”

“You burn barns. I don't burn barns. There's this glaring difference, and to me, rather than say which of us is strange, first of all I'd like to clear up just what that difference is.”

“Things had a way of working out for the best when you let them run their course.”

“You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you couldn’t decide exactly what to feel. That was the trouble with letting them in at all. They made a mess of the place.”

“It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.”

“No step along the way had seemed more than a little thing; but altogether it came to something rather monstrous.”

“They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.”

“I burn the way money burns.”

“Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down.”

“Why then dost thou choose to act in the same way? and why dost thou not leave these agitations which are foreign to nature, to those who cause them and those who are moved by them? And why art thou not altogether intent upon the right way of making use of things which happen to thee?”