"Man and animals are in reality vehicles..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“You don't get into trouble because of the things you don't know. It is the things you don't know you don't know that really get you into a mess.”

“Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.”

“Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.”

“Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.”

“Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.”

“It seems to be a rule of wisdom never to rely on your memory alone, scarcely even in acts of pure memory, but to bring the past for judgment into the thousand-eyed present, and live ever in a new day.”

“I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual”

“Misunderstanding may arise by confusing the Buddhist and scientific definitions of death. Within the scientific system you spoke quite validly of the death of the brain and the death of heart. Different parts of the body can die separately. However, in the Buddhist system, the word death is not used in that way. You'd never speak of the death of a particular part of the body, but rather of the death of an entire person. When people say that a certain person died, we don't ask, "Well, which part died?"”

“I will die here where I have walked. And I will walk here, though I am in my grave. I will walk here until the pride of this house is humbled.”