No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

The day of battle dawned pink as the fresh-bitten thigh of a maiden.

Once a Buddha, always a Buddha, Sam. Dust off some of your old parables. You have about fifteen minutes.' Sam held out his hand. "Give me some tobacco and a paper.

Why could you not have left me as I was, in the sea of being?""Because the world has need of your humility, your piety, your great teaching and your Machiavellian scheming.

The four points of the compass be logic, knowledge, wisdom and the unknown....To bow before the one is to lose sight of the three.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I'm a liar.

You are a fool to speak of last great battles, Sam, for the last great battle is always the next one.

But I recall the springtime of the world as though it were yesterday—those days when we rode together to battle, and those nights when we shook the stars loose from the fresh-painted skies!

Siddhartha considered the ways of the demon, and in that moment he struck.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

We live in a universe made up of energy. The energy that binds, as it whirls and swirls physical atoms, exists at varying levels of vibration and frequency.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

The forces which move the cosmos are not different from those which move the human soul.

I love it. It's all good to me. Whether I'm performing in New York, L.A., Columbus or Des Moines, I give 110 percent every night.

We must not wish anything other than what happens from moment to moment, all the while, however, exercising ourselves in goodness.

Let's be realistic. Let's do the impossible!

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

Love itself is obvious.You meet, love, part ways, get hurt and you meet again. I bet people get married because they’re tired of repeating those things.

You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.