All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi for my ignorance.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Wasting time over wasted time is just more wasted time...

Count the times. The number of times you have seen the silence of another world seep though a crack. The number of times you have heard the sea trying to escape from the blue painted wall.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room.

I'm a very soft-spoken person. I don't throw furniture. I don't throw tantrums.

Time has no meaning, Love will endure.

I don't ascribe to any particular style or period.

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.