Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

All really interesting girls invent themselves.

To think you know what is best for another person is an industrial-strength ego trip.

There was a law in Connecticut - I believe it is still formally unrepealed - making it illegal for a man to kiss his wife on Sunday.

Great music completely obliterates any conceptions of genre.

The more we reduce the amount of information in an idea, the stickier it will be.

All you can do everyday, is do what you believe is right. That's what I do, and what will be, will be.

I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

An honourable public and a dishonourable dictator cannot live together; at the end, the latter goes!

Our goal was to win, to win a Super Bowl, but also to win in the right way, to be role models to our community, to represent Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the National Football League.