The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.