We are so sluggish in our mentality that we think the world's problems are not our business, that they have to be resolved by the United Nations or by substituting new leaders for the old.

It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

One of the fundamental causes of the disintegration of society is copying, which is the worship of authority.

There must be a certain amount of imitation, copying, in outward technique, but when there is inward, psychological imitation surely we cease to be creative.

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help others out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

If, living in the world, you refuse to be a part of it, you will help other out of this chaos - not in the future, not tomorrow, but now.

We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

Gosh, I made so many mistakes. I mean I still make mistakes. We all do.

When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that's when the details take on larger meanings.

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

No one has ever stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?

The times that I have done something that I didn't respond to emotionally right away, it's generally not worked out too well.

There's the bullshit you know that you know; the bullshit you don't know and know you don't know; and the bullshit you just think you know but really don't.

Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul... the soul... There is no bandage - even crying is in vain.