... the sparrow’s chirp, the crow’s caw, the willow’s green, the cherry blossom’s pink, are the truth of the Zen master and the essence of Basho's style.

[http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/chaplin_c.html American Masters: Charlie Chaplin] at PBS

There is no one who can change My course or affect My conduct to the slightest extent. I am the Master over all.

[http://terebess.hu/english/hsin3.html The Hsin Hsin Ming (Verses on the Faith Mind) translated by Master Sheng-Yen]

The delegates of the annual conference are decidedly opposed to modern Abolitionism, and wholly disclaim any right, wish, or intention to interfere in the civil and political relation between master and slave as it exists in the slave states of the union.

The fact that Saigyō composed the poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. He also wrote:
In the mountain village
who are you calling, yobuko-bird?
I thought you lived alone.

[to Connor, about his son, John] It seems while I've been the master of illusion, you have been the master of deception. I always thought Immortals couldn't have children. What was it like convincing all those women you loved, that they were the ones unable to have a child?

Tinu Anand - Masterji

In my several years of international cricket, Tendulkar remains the best batsman I have ever bowled to. It's been a pleasure to bowl at the master batsman even though one hasn't always emerged with credit from the engagements.

I'm master when my father's away.

Even the Italian master in politicks, the subtle and renouned Machiavel acknowledges, that no republic ever yet stood on a stable foundation without satisfying the common people.

Europe taught that all great men are humanity's teachers.[...] America teaches that whoever succeeds in life should be your leader. Japan teaches that a man who has many friends is a man who has mastered life and such a man is a good man.

Cao Xueqin is a master of language. His prose is so exquisite and aesthetically pleasing that it almost attains perfection in every way.

A masterpiece of the first order in Chinese literature.

In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.

A master and way out of the league that the rest of us play in.