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.

I want to dedicate myself to training and discipline. I want to spend every moment of every day working to improve myself.

People tend to be put off by the idea of selling sex, but if you spend a winter's night with one of them and talk with her about her family and so on, you're likely to find she's just like any other woman.

It is easy to crush an enemy outside oneself but impossible to defeat an enemy within.

Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.

When a woman dislikes the man who is courting her, she parries him cleverly, like a willow in the wind.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.