Without the necessary humility to worship, I subconsciously desired to be worshiped, not in a crazy Napoleanic manner, but like a modern-day celebrity.

Power isn't having the world at your fingertips; it is having the world at your fingertips and being able to give it up!

Any goal without salvation as its ultimate end is as pointless as trying to live forever on this earth.

There is no point when all the material benefits of the world add up to a general state of happiness. It is the Great Misconception.

To be a real man is to be unattached - not from responsibility or justice - but from those dependencies that inhibit responsibility and justice.

A forest is not a wilderness, but a community of souls who speak to one another on the wind.

Women were very queer. Unexpectedly cruel and unexpectedly kind.

If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good.

I've always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

I am too old for an eyebrow piercing but too young for an eyebrow lift.

Losing composure is pointless.

I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people. Look at me now. Am I a violent person? No. So, as far as my conscience and my mission were concerned, there was no problem.

Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't.

Only dead fish go with the flow.