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.

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

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

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.

Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.

He could not fit in my imagination and I was not fit for his Real and the conflict between imagination and real sadly made us apart

I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war.

You better arm yourselves to answer your children's and grandchildren's questions... no matter what the question is... without being judgmental.

Guard your good mood.

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant

I am not an objective reporter. I prefer to go further, to the unstated things of our existence. What I can't understand and grasp seems to lead me.

Pharmaceutical projects are like fresh fruit - they depreciate if they are not tended to, and they do poorly if sitting on the shelf with long periods of inactivity.