All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever.

"What is a human being, then?" "A seed." "A... seed?" "An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree."

The true human being is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities.

If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself.

We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.