The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God..

All good thoughts and ideas mean nothing without action.

In the past, kong-an (koan) practicing meant checking someone's enlightenment. Now we use kong-ans to make our lives correct. . . . You must use kong….

Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal hot ….

Islam does not mean peace. It means submission. The word "peace" for Muslims has a different meaning. Peace, according to Muslims, will be achieved w….

I think most people are many-sided; you have your evil side, your happy side, your spaced-out side. You try to stay on the positive side more - I mea….

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human..

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they follow. Bigness means weakness..

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules..

But I've been surprised over the years. I mean, someone told me the other day that maybe 360 million people have played this game in the world. That'….

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real..

I take all of my music seriously and personally..

It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

Do not let anyone stop you from succeding.

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth..

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..

I don't like closed systems..

I don't pull, I just receive..

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back s….

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much..