New Aphorisms

A delicious hunger inspires the seeker.
The golden belly is always fed,
and never full.

There are thoughts that disappear into the heart,
where only a lover may follow them.


We are haunted by the ghosts of idle hours passed,
and guided by the spirits of hours well spent.


Women have flowers. Men have women.


How fragile is the crystal cup? How frail, the age'd vine?
With just a word, the dream is cut -- and all who dream it die.


The Virgin wears blue because the sky is blue.
Her shawl is white because clouds are white.
She is holy, too, because they are.


To be thankful for your blessings
is the highest blessing you receive.


Even if the whole universe refuted it,
Christ alone would be proof of God's Love.


I have always been a huge fan of Christianity.
One day it occured to me, "Maybe I'm a Christian."


Truth is always just beyond the thing you are looking at.


Do unto animals as you would have God do unto you.


Animals are children who never grow up.


There are more inventors than there are
people who allow themselves to invent.


Many people have children as a substitute
for releasing their inner child.


If they can control the drugs you take,
they can control the thoughts you think.


Some won't drink, but want a drunk.


For men of action, simplicity is character;
for men of thought, it is suicide.


My passion is tame.
It's my reason that's wild.


Courage is ripeness of will.


The watering of your favorite virtue
brings the flowering of all the virtues.


There is one philosophy: Philosophize!


What we call the universal is another particular.


There is nothing deeper than an apple. Scratch that.
There is nothing deeper than an apple -- given away.