And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.

Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung

To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

Apology makes you self responsible while excuse makes you undependable

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God.

Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

The hand that punched is the hands that gives compassion

Even the worthy Homer sometimes nods.

Any time I can be of help to the government in terms of giving advice -I've given a little advice, actually.

You can fail in films because you don't have the talent, or you have too much humility, or you lack ferociousness. I'm a gangster. If I want something, I'll grab it.

Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our forefathers and of love for our posterity.

I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know.