Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.

Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.

There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.

Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.

Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.

Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.

I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.

I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.

It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.

You had this all planned, didn’t you?' I accused. 'Thought you could come in here and seduce me like you do everyone else?' It wasn’t as if I could be angry, lying atop him as I was, but I tried.

The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.

Gotta love it when a plan comes together...

Ounce for ounce, herbs and spices have more antioxidants than any other food group.

True worship, worship that is pleasing to God, radiates throughout a person's entire life.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

I've been running a lot, taking care of myself.

Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha.

The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.