Zen has no secrets other than seriously thinking about life and death.

Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!

Learning is to a man as the leaves and branches are to a tree, and it can be said that he should not be without it.

A man with deep far-sightedness will survey both the beginning and the end of a situation and continually consider its every facet as important.

Arouse a bee and it will come at you with the force of a dragon.

… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

No herd is more herd than the mass of ignorant people!

Our deal always was that we did one as scripted always, we got it like we thought we needed - so we were all happy with it as written. Then I'd let him play as long as we had time.

One victim lives in tragedy, another victim stops to stare, and still another walks on by pretending not to see

The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.

God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it

But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

I'm not very firey, but when I go, I go. I don't shout, I just get upset.

It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?