From experience, I can tell you that if you go around trying to figure out what's fair in life or whether you deserve something or not, that's a rabbit hole that is hard to climb out of.

Fate or not, our lives are still the results of our choices.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

Photography is 1% talent and 99% moving furniture.

There are desires that we all want to achieve, but remember respect is most greatest to receive.

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

I don’t have any problem doing anything. The secret is I have no shame.

"The person next to me meditates better than I do. They're purer." - This is the ego feeling sorry for itself.

But there have been many news reports that water-boarding has been used on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who is one of the major al Qaeda figures that we have in U.S. custody.

Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.