It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

...you're going to find people from all over the country, everyone hungry for money and position. You won't make a name for yourself just doing what the next man does. You'll have to distinguish yourself in some way.

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

It does happen, of course, that the priesthood has been on bad terms with womankind for some three thousand years. You see, Buddhism teaches that women are evil. Fiends. Messengers of hell. I've spent years immersed in the scriptures, so it's no accident that you and I fight all the time.

The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

Sincerity, even if it speaks with a stutter, will sound eloquent when inspired.