All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic.

The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!

I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being.

You don't need a science degree to understand about science. You just need to think about it.

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

Lose yourself in the far off worlds that are right under your feet. Switch below with above all the way up into infinity. We should be thankful who we are, whether we know ourselves or not.

Mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

I think it is essential that America does not stumble into a stupid war with Iran.