You retain the Ki. Whether or not you become a warrior is for you to discover.

Answer me immediately or I'll start cutting away everything that's pretty on you...and then put it back.

There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!

There is no education system in the world - none at all - that's better than its average teacher.

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion.

Four specters haunt the poor - old age, accident, sickness and unemployment

The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.

Hope is not a method.

Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go.

If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots.

For example, if the big bang had been one-part-in-a billion more powerful, it would have rushed out too fast for the galaxies to form and for life to begin.