The More I Know, The More Sure

What You Do With Strangers Is Ignore Them For. No Second Chance, No Sorry I Did It, Never Accept An Apology, But Never, Ever Get Angry With Strangers.

To Think Bad Thoughts Is Really The Easiest Thing In The World. If You Leave Your Mind To Itself It Will Spiral Down Into Ever Increasing Unhappiness. To Think Good Thoughts, However, Requires Effort. This Is One Of The Things That Discipline And Training Is All About.

Blackthorne, Beside The Gates, Was Still Turmoiled By His Boundless Joy At Her Reprieve And He Remembered How His Own Will Had Been Stretched That Night Of His Near-seppuku, When He Had Had To Get Up As A Man And Walk Home As A Man Unsupported, And Became Samurai. And He Watched Her, Despising The Need For This Courage, Yet Understanding It, Even Honoring It.

Changi For Me - Of Course It's Easy To Be Wise After The Event, And To Discuss It Cleverly After The Event - Was About As Near As You Can Get To Being Dead And Still Be Alive.

Leave The Problems Of God To God And Karma To Karma. Today You're Here And Nothing You Do Will Change That. Today You Are Alive And Here And Honored And Blessed With Good Fortune. Look At This Suset, It's Beautiful, Neh? This Sunset Exists. Tomorrow Does Not Exist. There Is Only Now. Please Look. It Is So Beautiful And It Will Never Happen Ever Again, Never, Not This Sunset, Never In All Infinity. Lose Yourself In It, Make Yourself One With Nature And Do Not Worry About Karma, Yours, Mine, Or That Of The Village.