You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Never take a path that has no heart in it. You can't lose if your heart is in your work, but you can't win if your heart is not in it.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

We don't need more to be thankful for, we just need to be more thankful.

As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

You can have some, but not all. Wanting to have it all is a sure recipe for disaster

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

Don't use your bedroom for work, unless you're a prostitute.

Well, yes: people write poems when they are in love, but a wise man will not print them.

I don't need drugs to make weird music.

It [humor] inhabits the marginal.

I don't know how to make people like me. Cinna, how do you make people like you?

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

Sometimes thinking too much can destroy your momentum.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.