Even on this level, it is at bottom not deception [men] hate but the dire, inimical consequences of certain kinds of deception

Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is.

Obamacare has made the government part of our health care decisions. The IRS controls all of our financial information. The NSA apparently sees everything else.

The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this."

Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.

To go beyond samsara and nirvana, we will need the two wings of emptiness and compassion. From now on, let us use these two wings to fly fearlessly into the sky of the life to come.

I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

I feel my body weakening but my spirit is fine, ready to go to war with devils at the drop of a dime

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

I've done a little yoga, not as a professional, and every time I have a good teacher I see the immense possibilities and subtleties in this discipline. It's a little bit like music.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

I was born in 1929, and in the 50 years from 1930 to 1980, I've been able to live an unbelievably varied century. Before, you could never have seen such intense change in a 50-year span.