Our lives are based on what is reasonable and common sense; Truth is apt to be neither.

For the keynote of the law of Karma is equilibrium, and nature is always working to restore that equilibrium whenever through man's acts it is disturbed.

The Road has two rules only: begin and continue.

The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.

It follows that I must accept myself for what I am before I can deliberately change it.

Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.

It is your life, so who should change it?

A good martial artist does not become tend but ready, not thinking but jet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come.

The problem with the World Bank has to do with development - the spreading of Western over-consumption worldwide.

All scientific progress requires a climate of strong skepticism.

A truly humble person knows that they are nothing in themselves but they are everything in Christ.

They are taking steps, but they are baby steps.

We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.

The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

You lose the arrogance you need to be successful, but you need that arrogance because the second someone sees that side of you and chip at it, it's over.