Disappointment results from the removal of illusion.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

You know what I hate about working? Bosses...The very idea that ANYONE could be my boss, well...I think you see the conflict.

The customer is never wrong.

Dreams are one of your greatest natural therapies, and one of your most effective assets as connectors between the interior and exterior universes.

I will prove my innocence, ... I guarantee the Filipino people that I will be vindicated because the truth is on my side.

I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in the classroom, get very bad grades.

We're in danger of losing an even more foundational belief of Christianity: that salvation is only possible through faith in Jesus Christ.

I grew up in trailer houses in New Mexico, Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma.

I want to be in a position where I get to start off fresh. I don't have any preconceived notion of how I should feel.

Somebody has to be prepared to be the good guy from time to time in order for the human race to prosper, though most people don't want it to be them.