Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

Men always fear things which move by themselves.

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.