I accept the term extremist with pride.

You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to a mad dog.

I do not respect the Dalai Lama. He's a political power broker. The Dalai Lama is not honorable to me.

Be what you yearn to be, and stop living for false ideals.

I find it increasingly difficult to speak of my feelings at will.

There is no sacrifice for nothing

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.

The best way to win a game is not to lose it.

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.

I didn’t want to tell the story of myself, but someone I called myself. If you read yourself as fiction, it’s rather more liberating than reading yourself as fact.

Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.