Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

Stop feeling powerless and small when you are adorned with power of love.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.

We see even the flames.

I don't know what 'famous' is, really.

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help

I'm a deeply superficial person.

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with whats going on - and thats scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.

Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

I've always been into writing love songs.