Crafting a plan is easy. Taking action will always prove to be the more difficult path.

Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

All good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling - these stories always contain truth.

I distance myself from heaven and then complain that heaven is distant.

Peace is a product of both patience and persistence.

I have been quiet today because fear in my heart has been fighting with frustration in my brain, leaving little energy for my mouth.

Of all the stories I have read about heroes, and all that I could ever read, of one thing I'm certain-he is mine.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.

I'll go back to comedy clubs when they get a real no-camera policy, the same way they did with smoking.

You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

Why does a chicken coop only have two doors? ... Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.

There are many terrorist states in the world, but the United States is unusual in that it is officially committed to international terrorism.

Just because you are not interested in politics, does not mean that politics is not interested in you.

Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.

In our time all it takes for evil to flourish is for a few good men to be a little wrong and have a great deal of power, and for the vast majority of their fellow citizens to remain indifferent.