Fundamentally, Buddhism is for the awakenment and benefit of beings. So, you can't say, "Oh, you can't have it because you're not ready for it." That goes against the fundamental principle.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

But now we have time. Endless time stretches before us.

Don’t be afraid. Be the kind of person your mother warned you about.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

I was raised in a spirit of the importance of service to your fellow man. My mom is a senator back home in South Africa. My father is a very caring and generous individual.

The only silver lining I can find is that British accents aren't sexy anymore.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

Every time you create a gap in the stream of mind, the light of your consciousness grows stronger

As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.

I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

The number one thing I look for in a man is integrity. A man who does what he says he's going to do.