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

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.

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.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

You are not the first, and will not be the last, to say so. I wear my “warped” label with pride.

Because even if you buried yourself in guilt, you can't go back and change what happened.

Now and then I am asked as to ‘what books a statesman should read, ’ and my answer is, poetry and novels – including short stories under the head of novels.

It is one of the noblest duties of a university to advance knowledge, and to diffuse it not merely among those who can attend the daily lectures—but far and wide.

I've always been a proud man.

Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are.

I was suckered in by the myth of the man [ William Burroughs] as much as by his work.

Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain Of finite hearts that yearn.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

You can keep your privacy in the world by keeping your product, not your personality, the star.