For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'

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.

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

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.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd be up for hearing about the one-eyed chick.

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once when I was number one on the bestseller list I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

The sadest part of love life is when you cannot live with and without the one you love

Find what you love and let it kill you. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.

In the early days, I didn't have the money to pay decent salaries, so I didn't get good people. I got nice people, but I didn't get good employees.

The paper nominated me 12 or 13 times for the Pulitzer Prize.

No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.

The more people's money you take to do something, the more inputs you get.

Apple is this great American company that could have only happened here.