Without Quotes

But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth?

Without elegance of the heart, there is no elegance.

What is life without incompatible realities?

You can’t win fame; you have to earn it. If you’re given fame without working for it, then you’re not going to be ready for it.

I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.

Without the mind there is no Buddha. Without the Buddha there’s no mind.

I can’t perform without the mask or be seen without it on stage, or else it’ll distract from the whole persona.