“True sacrifice is merely self-control.”

“Love without truth and honor is licentious in nature. Love without commitment is promiscuous and fleeting. Love without virtue and understanding is savage and selfish. Love without respect is short-lived. Love without these conditions is without God.”

“One result for many people is a tendency to think that power comes from cruelty or indifference. But, in reality such things are not powerful, because cruelty and indifference emerge not from a self that is in posession of itself but from a self that is imprisoned in its own inner drama”

“Skiing can be thought of as a control and guidance activity, sliding down on a varying surface”

“It is a world of words to the end of it, / In which nothing solid is its solid self.”

“Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.”

“Life is painful, suffering is optional.”