War is more than battles, and battles are more than violence.

If you would see a man's heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more.

There is wisdom out there that can’t be relayed in musings or sage advice. Like the complexity of life itself, it simply won’t condense. It can only be shown in its entirety. It takes a story.

The weight of history swings on choices. To understand why people make the choices they do is to understand the whole of history and most of the future.

The universe holds a destiny in store for people who will not build their own, but they seldom like it.

Stories shape the world.

To weaken the body, remove blood. To weaken the character, remove struggle.

I do respect clever.

Animal rage is scary, but not as scary as control.

There is an undercurrent of savagery in the human psyche. Anyone who forgets this and doesn’t guard against it, risks being swept away by it.

A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village

May you uncover the wisdom that summons the answers – to all that you seek.

When you start to notice the mystical, the mystical will start to notice you.

... the good for man is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, or if there are more kinds of virtue than one, in accordance with the best and most perfect kind.

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

I sometimes feel ashamed that I am devoting myself to artistic pursuits while so many of our people are suffering and dying for us. It's true that fretting never did any good.

Zen is...joyous iconoclasm which respects nothing and no one, particularly itself.

For me, my business is my business and my house is my house. I don't want the public in my house.

Negative energies can't touch you if you are in a state of meditativeness.

The song of canaries Never varies, And when they're moulting They're pretty revolting.