God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Poetry’s circular fulfillment was so persistent, when I was weak it gave me strength.

I like to deliver more than I promise instead of the other way around.

I dress for women - and I undress for men.

I'm very fond of doing movies where men fight over me. I don't get to do enough.

It's not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It's who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

What do any of us ever truly know?

It takes a man to make a devil.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

Don't treat people the way they treat you. Treat them better.

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world.