"Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people."

“It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.”

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”

Source : John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.96

“She had no particular breed in mind, no unusual requirements. Except the special sense of mutual recognition that tells dog and human they have both come to the right place.”

“Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.”

“For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himselfand others. He doesn't use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.”

“Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.”

“Stay a little while longer, and let everyone congratulate you - including the ones who clearly don't want to: in fact, especially the ones who clearly don't want to. You don't have to say anything but 'thank you”

Source : Tsoknyi Rinpoche (2012). “Open Heart, Open Mind: A Guide to Inner Transformation”, p.237, Random House

“I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.”