Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

Live fully each day to the full . . .

Hate poisons your life.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

I am daily making myself what I am.

A possession can't make you happy.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the greatest teachers of our time. He reaches from the heights of insight down to the deepest places of the absolutely ordinary.

Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.

New York is the great stone desert.

Life is like a fire. Flames which the passer-by forgets. Ashes which the wind scatters. A man lived.

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!

Everyone fears rejection.

You might be a redneck if...Your only condiment on the dining room table is the economy size bottle of ketchup.

If I didn't believe it in my own mind, I never would have seen it.

Once the referee throws the ball in the air, it's either your ball or their ball and you have to just take your shot.

I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.