A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away.

Sooner or later everyone behaves badly. Some of us are just better at it than others.

You can't study comedy it's within you. It's a personality. My humor is an attitude.

Regarding marriage, it - somehow, it didn't happen. One fellow in such a big family not getting married is not an issue.

You have to decide at the end of the day if you can live with yourself.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

A motorcycle functions entirely in accordance with the laws of reason, and a study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality itself.

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.