Do not regret the past. Look to the future.

Receive a guest with the same attitude you have when alone. When alone, maintain the same attitude you have in receiving guests.

Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.

My heart burns like fire but my eyes are as cold as dead ashes.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Your skin has a memory.In ten, twenty, thirty years from now, your skin will show the results ofhow it was treated today.So treat it kindly and with respect.

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry.

Life wants you to respect yourself, respect other people and respect the planet.

Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?

My favorite pastime is to write.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

President Bush's war on Iraq is viewed broadly in Islamic communities as an attack on Islam, and thus the President has alienated a large part of one fifth of the world's population.

Have you ridden over anyone you shouldn't?

If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.