If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers, then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me.

I don't judge people. It blurs out the center of my attention, my focus, myself.

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems. Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Risk means 'shit happens' or 'good luck

If you feel obsessed to prove something to the world, then you'd need world attention to be able to prove it.

If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today.

Like it or not, there are people who are capable to love genuinely and kill brutally. The amazing thing about that, few of those could even sleep well like babies in the night.

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.

Many lies lie between one truth.

There has to be new words to explain new worlds.

Law is made by the winner to preserve victory over the loser.

You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park where the few people who can still afford the price of admission no longer have an ounce of freedom.

Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom.

We kissed all the way through the fireworks display. We didn’t even notice that there was a fireworks display… …I guess because we’d been making fireworks of our own.

The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.

When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

I realized that I had a serious problem with depression, and I went to a doctor and he gave me some medication.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.