Trust your doubt. Always fight for your beliefs. That is the path beyond thought.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Try to find the path of least resistance and use it without harming others. Live with integrity and morality, not only with people but with all beings.

It is a lot harder now to be a police officer than what it used to be.

I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.

One must first learn to heal people to be great. To hurt people is easy.

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

People all over the world recognize me as a spiritual leader.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

The secret is not to act, but to be.

My philosophy is that the most important aspect of any religion should be human kindness. And to try to ease the suffering of others. To try to bring light and love into the lives of mankind.

Take that your accidental self and build it into your ideal self.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through of getting to the other side the relief of a conflict healed the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

No one ever expects poetry to sell...

I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.

When we love people but don't make it about us, we're exchanging currency we can use for a while for currency we can use forever.

You can go to any small town in America, there's going to be a metal fan there. You can't say that about post-rock.

I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise.

It would be really nice to have a venue stop in Japan someday. Japan would be perfect for it.