A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness.

The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

If you don't go within, you go without.

There is no truth except the truth that exists within you. Everything else is what someone is telling you.

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

One of the aims of Budo is the suppression of fears.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

I am really addicted to music.

You change the rhythm of the talk and respoonse and you change the rhythm between the talk and the response.

It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena.

Rather a man with 50 per cent ability and 100 per cent character than a man with 100 per cent ability and 50 per cent character.

Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.

The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.

The problem is not what other people think, do or say; it is your reaction.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.