“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
“I think you get most of the most interesting work done in fields where people don’t think they’re doing art but are merely practicing a craft and working as good craftsmen. Being literate as a writer is good craft, is knowing your job, is knowing how to use your tools properly and not to damage the tools as you use them.”
“Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.”
“Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.”
“You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else’s. But it’s inevitable, so you’d better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.”
“I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It’s easier for me to add an activity than to deny myself something. And when I do lose the weight, I don’t like that it makes me feel good about myself. It’s not who I am.”
“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.”
“To understand the future properly, it’s crucial that we listen to geologists as often as we do computer scientists.”
“How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.”
“To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.”