virtue can flower only when there is freedom.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.

To understand ourselves needs no authority either of yesterday or of a thousand years because we are living things, always moving, flowing, never resting.

space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, not held by infinite varieties of experience, that it can come upon something totally new.

A man who knows what it is to have humility is a vain man.

We mustn't let next week rob us of this week's joy.

The tailor bird builds her nest in deep woods, she uses no more than one branch.The mole drinks off the river, it can only fill one belly. Chuang Tzu

Who you are is of greater importance than what you do.

Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.

Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture-room with the words, "Behold Plato's man!"

Michael Cole, The Rock knows that you have never, EVER, had a piece of poontang pie!

Put the walls up. Get the better walls. There's no reason the army website should be hacked.

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece of string, so they'll never find their way out.

Taste your legs, sire: put them into motion.