One must first learn to heal people to be great. To hurt people is easy.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

People all over the world recognize me as a spiritual leader.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

The secret is not to act, but to be.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

I myself am a very nonviolent person and only resort to violence when I absolutely have to.

Now they seemed to be in a contest over who could irritate her more, and she sometimes had to remind herself that teenagers had souls

It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up.

One doesn't read poetry while thinking of other things.

If you can't move your brush good, just move your face.

Everything that I make I use.

There's no question that the main location of al Qaeda is in tribal areas of Pakistan.

The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.

Heaven does not make holiness, but holiness makes heaven.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.