From the point of view of the relative world, merit is very important.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!

He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.

Good enough is never good enough.

A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.

Never trust a woman who doesn’t like to eat. She is probably lousy in bed.

We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.

This is the place of places and and it is here.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

I hate when people are chomping their gum, even though I do it. I hate that.

There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded.