Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

To help others to develop and succeed in life is a reward itself and only has value when nothing is expected in return.

In a time of destruction, create something.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

When we assist Him in His mission of saving souls, we too will be rescued in the process.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain.

A true Grandmaster is a person who starts the arts at a very young age and continues it until their body will no longer allows it. Then they still contribute mentally to the art.

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.

What I love is the span between 'Action' and 'Cut'. What I do in that span is what I love about my job".

My nipples tightened as I breathed in his musky scent mixed with cologne. I didn’t recognize the brand, but it spoke to something inside me. It whispered come closer, and my heart pounded harder.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I sometimes follow people who attract my curiosity in the street for five, ten minutes.

Fate operates when people give up

The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.

People think I'm so confident. Close family members can see through that.

I am not a person of nature. I love to think of myself as one, but I've never even gone camping.

Religion is an act of sedition against reason. Whatever religion is most seductive and likely to draw in victims to surrender their skepticism is the worst.