As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

One must first learn to heal people to be great. To hurt people is easy.

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

People all over the world recognize me as a spiritual leader.

The secret is not to act, but to be.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

Aiming for a greater level of success should never be for the purpose of making others look inferior to you.

The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.

Bob has never written a bad song. Bob Dylan is a genius.

If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper.

One man isn't any better than another, not because they are equal, but because they are intrinsically other, that there is no termof comparison.

Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life.... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

Believe it or not, I've got a really bad metabolism. One burger and I'm done. I'm not a guy that puts away 10 burgers.

Anger shows us precisely where we are stuck, where our limits are, where we cling to beliefs and fears.

Couture is more your own world, they come and buy head-to-toe ­ - they buy the jewelry, bags, coats, dresses, bodies underneath.... But couture is not dead ­ - it's taken another shape.

GE is the biggest polluter of the Hudson.. years ago they killed all the fish dumping millions of lbs. of pcb's into our waterways. Now let's make them pay for the cleanup.