A true friend sees the first tear, catches the second an stops the third.

It is our very search for perfection outside of ourselves that causes suffering.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back.

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless.

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch.

In times of crisis, it is of utmost importance to keep one's head.

The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.