Those who greatly enlighten delusion are buddhas; those who are greatly deluded about enlightenment are sentient beings.

Enlightenment after all is to overcome delusion, by way of sensitizing practitioners to complexities and problems of the human situation.

Paradoxically, the more deeply one grows in enlightenment, the more clearly one discerns one's own frailties and limitations.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

If yourhands are tied towardsanyone who's in need ofa helping hand, let yourtangue also be tied

Anyone can act strategically, it doesn’t take much to make a plan. The skill of a general is his or her ability to react strategically when plans fail.

Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit.

In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

You try as a parent. You love beyond reason. You fight beyond endurance. You hope beyond despair. You never think, until the very last moment, that it still might not be enough.

A woman always has her revenge ready.

My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.

To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.