Better the arrow that missed the lion than the one that killed a rabbit.

How can one, who eats the flesh of others to swell his flesh, show compassion?

The only gift is giving to the poor; All else is exchange.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

The biggest fool is he who has learned much, taught much, and is still discontented.

Be wise among the wise, but pretend to be dull among fools.

The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water, So men's height is just as great as their inner strength.

Real kindness seeks no return.

Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.

Among a man's many good possessions, A good command of speech has no equal. Prosperity and ruin issue from the power of the tongue. Therefore, guard yourself against thoughtless speech.

Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.

Sometimes I fear those noisy words boiling in an unsettling cauldron.

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

Why think of liberation at some future time? Liberation is in the little things, here and now.

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.

If you watched companies such as Sony and Samsung grow, they focused first on features and then on industrial design, which made their products look and feel better.

Women of God can never be like women of the world.

The jolt that Tony Blair received 35,000ft above the Pacific Ocean was not normal turbulence.

That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.