A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

While you are busy pleasing the crowd, who is attending to the positive demands of your inner-self?

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

You gotta be rich to be insane, Hol. Losing your mind is not a luxury for the middle class.

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll.

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

What counts isn't being able to do a thing, it's seeing what it is. Seeing is the decisive act, and ultimately it places the maker and the viewer on the same level.

The best part of writing is thinking about the story. And then everything else takes a lot of discipline.

I trust men only because I trust God.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah