In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

No construct on earth will stand, that does not stand for the least among them, as their advocate and humble servant.

I'm an emotional guy, I cry at movies, man, so beating GSP and winning the world title... yeah, I'll probably cry in the Octagon.

You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

Debt is always repaid, either by the borrower or by the lender.

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

Somebody ought to have the courage to tell the truth. These people are terrorists.

Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.

I am doing what I love to do.