The trouble is you can shut your eyes but you can’t shut your mind.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.

...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He says the hair is a separate creature that just happens to live on him.

Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the creator was a traditional method of patent-protection.

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.