To appreciate pleasure some had to experience pain

Protect art. It is the antidote to the innate barbarism of the human race.

Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

Karate is the best thing you can do for your child.

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

Exercise is the main thing that helped me lose weight.

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

When I finish a sentence, after much labor, it's finished. A certain point comes at which you can't do any more work on it because you know it will kill the sentence.

[That form of] eloquence, the foster-child of licence, which fools call liberty. [Lat., Eloquentia, alumna licentiae, quam stulti libertatem vocabant.]

My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.