Pay attention even to life's trifles.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.

The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead

Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain

No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt

Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

My grace is sufficient for thee. The words soothed her soul like a healing balm.

... it is because we have acquired technical knowledge without understanding the total process of life that technology has become a means of destroying ourselves

I don't know whether to be proud or appalled that danger, blood and death inspire you so.

I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want people to ask me questions about it.

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.

I have no idea what my persona would be. As far as I'm concerned, I'm changing all the time.

Economists are said to disagree too much but in ways that are too much alike: If eight sleep in the same bed, you can be sure that, like Eskimos, when they turn over, they'll all turn over together.

And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.