In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong mind and a strong technique, mind will prevail, because it will find the weak point.

Think with your whole body.

If you are not happy here and now, you never will be.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.

You have to practice until you die.

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.

The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow and hesitant.

You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order.

Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.

The greatest discovery is to be founded by God.

The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading

'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's the same with the 'Divergent' series.

I am not a dictator, and I do not think I will become one. I will not maintain power with a machine gun.

Buddha indicated that the self, that part of you that incarnates from lifetime to lifetime was causal.

There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.

What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.

We're picking on people we can beat.

You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.

Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things.