Everyone and everything is in some degree or other our teacher.

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.

If that’s the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You’ve numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Speculative stock movements are carried too far in both directions, frequently in the general market and at all times in at least some of the individual issues.

I got a horse for my wife. I thought it was a fair swap.

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.

My personal sense of humor is edgy, I would say more cable-like: words you're not allowed to say, ideas that the majority of people might say, "That's too risqué for me."

I remember back in the day when Chuck D called hip-hop the "black people's CNN." Well now, hip-hop is more like Fox News. It's biased, and highly suspect.

All actors are incredibly insecure.