"If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from acid if she were to show her face."

“But I think that your entire life is a process of sorting out some of those early messages that you got.”

“The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination and differences, so that finally we cannot communicate as a harmonious whole. These differences we create appear as fighting, anger, hatred, and war.”

Source : Dainin Katagiri (1988). “Returning to Silence”, Shambhala Publications

“I don't go around trying to stir up foreign wars.”

“Discipline is rarely enjoyable, but almost always profitable.”

Source : Darrin Patrick (2014). “The Dude's Guide to Manhood: Finding True Manliness in a World of Counterfeits”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

“Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.”

“I really don't limit myself in any way. I just search for great flavors and marriages wherever they come from.”

“One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty.”

“This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.”