We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.

Nothing is pending in the world…nothing is finished, yet nothing is unresolved…Everything is filled to the brim.

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

When our patterns are threatened by new facts, reason is seldom the victor: 'I know what I think, so don't go confusing me with new opinions.

But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.

... and it broke my heart in so many pieces I wondered if it would ever be whole again.

Scotland needs comedy more than ever. With the independence debate, finally after 300 years, reaching room temperature.

A year from now, you're gonna weigh more or less than what you do right now.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.

Career success means making enough money to lead the kind of life you would like to lead as a practicing Buddhist.

I'm pretty athletic. I do things sometimes even I can't believe.

I don't like fancy fiddly girlie stuff.