Being natural is the ultimate secret of our art.

The heart of taijutsu is important and only through training will one polish that heart (like a gem) and understand true taijutsu.

Let him cut your skin, and you cut his flesh. Let him cut your flesh, and you cut his bones. Let him cut your bones, and you cut off his life

For taijutsu, the flexibility of the legs is the most important factor, not the strength of the legs.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Lust is a tool, desire a trap. Wield the first, and you can take someone’s soul. Fall into the second, and they can take yours. ~ Isadora Conti to Grayson van Court

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

I'm calling the police, " she said, showing him the phone in her hand.He smiled, and for a moment she forgot about the phone. "You don't need the police."No, of course she didn't How silly.

Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.

You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

What the study I chaired actually said was we needed tougher regulation of cash and capital in banks, as credit was too easy. Events proved that right.

Time is everything. Anything you want, anything you accomplish - pleasure, success, fortune - is measured in time.

And through the opening or clearing in your own awareness may come flashing higher truths, subtler revelations, profound connections. For a moment you might even touch eternity.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.