Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people find hard to accept. Don't confuse the teacher with the lesson, the ritual with the ecstasy, the transmitter of the symbol with the symbol itself.

Listen to your heart. It knows all things, because it came from the Soul of the World and it will one day return there.

Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.