That's the first rule of survival in enemy waters: volunteer nothing.

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

To really change the world, we have to help people change the way they see things.

Impersonators, with time give up hope, but great leaders imitate with discretion.

But the living must fear death, or they would not struggle to stay alive. from 'The Fallen Kings.

The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is.

Pride comes from a place of real acknowledgment that somebody's actually living their life for themselves, and I want to be that example for my son.

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck.

Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.