The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?""Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one.

But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

No one wants to take the risk.They just have to...

I had too many things to say, and too small a brain to sort them out with.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

There's so many interesting aspects of making a movie: the costume department, the set design, the casting itself, the locations.

The hidden child wants to be able to participate and to co-create in art, rather than being simply an admiring viewer.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

I'd love to be a mad scientist who plays around with chemistry, and solves all the world's problems and creates a few of them himself.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

Putin is somebody who really respects strength.

Everyone has their own mantra.