There is no one in the United States over the age of 18 who cannot be indicted for some federal crime. That is not an exaggeration.

Passion is the most glamorous outfit not the most modern fashion.

Now it was just the three of us: the leader, the warrior, and the kid about to wet his pants. Guess who I was.

How clumsily we love this world:looking into that vast darkness, waiting for the telescopeto send down unseen colors of light.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.

I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me.

over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go forward forgetting those left behind." Page 62

My friends sometimes call me "Alamanci" (Turkish for German) But it actually doesn't matter to me. I would more likely consider myself a Turkish person who grew up in Germany.