I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

One must first learn to heal people to be great. To hurt people is easy.

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

People all over the world recognize me as a spiritual leader.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

The secret is not to act, but to be.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

You should never consider finished a war you did not win

In poetry, everything can be faked but the intensity of utterance.

When you have somebody that's smart and you're not so smart, to me that's modern day slavery because you're being dictated to.

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

Love did not have to make sense. It did not have to be worthy. It did not have to be earned. It did not have to woo. It just simply was.

I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.

I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.