God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible..

Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to bein….

There is no dignity for either the sufferer or the torturer.

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

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..

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now..

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores..

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma..

Horses are far worse than men for treachery..

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction..

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face..

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..

Christ, it's so good to be alive..

The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox..

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in his breast to show to his special friends and his….

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 ….

How can a man be so brave and so stupid, so gentle and so cruel, so warming and so detestable -- all at the same time?.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous..

Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty,….

I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one... In return for picking up one of m….

To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness….