.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.

Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them, not by how happy you can make them.

There's a hysterical, tired sense of humor that comes after working 14 hours a day, six days a week. I like those things because they take the pressure off the constant stress.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.

Racism is a common thread among people of color, even though each experience with it is different.

You may baptize as long as you want, but the Jew remains a Jew, the Chinese a Chinese and the Negro a Negro.

Holy mother of Lord Cocoa Puffs

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent.

I'm not really interested in making someone endure a performance or stand there for too long. I like to think about the length.