Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?

You've commited murder just as much as Helene did. You killed a fly with a human head. She killed a human with a fly head.

Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will change that. Today you are alive and here and honored and blessed with good fortune. Look at this suset, it's beautiful, neh? This sunset exists. Tomorrow does not exist. There is only now. Please look. It is so beautiful and it will never happen ever again, never, not this sunset, never in all infinity. Lose yourself in it, make yourself one with nature and do not worry about karma, yours, mine, or that of the village.

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

What you do with strangers is ignore them for. No second chance, no sorry I did it, never accept an apology, but never, ever get angry with strangers.

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.