So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

A seed houses generation of seeds and can also feed generations of man.

Decision making and problem solving are not the same. To solve a problem, one needs to find a solution. To make a decision, one needs to make a choice.

Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.

Would you like me to go and stick my head in a bucket of water?

A lot of photography is making records of people, as objects, friends. It's like organizing a wardrobe - in terms of size etc.

I consider it a degradation and a stain on my honor to submit to baptism in order to qualify myself for state employment in Prussia.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.

There is nothing wrong with people that reasoning with them won't aggravate!