Happiness is like water. We’re always trying to grab onto it, but it’s always slipping between our fingers

Shame is the power we give others to wield over us.

There are no miracles these days. Manna will not fall from the sky. Bombs, yes, enough to pierce our hearts, but manna, no.

And now she began muttering to herself. "God, who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.

Let peace be. Let life be.

...as if in rebellion, certain emotions become amplified at the exact moments when you are expected not to feel them at all.

You'll marry your studies? Marry your books? You already have one degree but you want another. You'll marry your degrees?

For every virtuous man, there are ten thousand worshipers of virtue.

The more you let yourself go the less others let you go.

Nearly everywhere Buddhism went, there had been a higher level of literacy, even in miserable Burma, not to mention Thailand and Sri Lanka.

If I am not with my daughter, that's when all my meetings happen. That's when I get right on a plane. That's when I go and do my book tour. When I am with her, it's just all with her.

Dream BIG dreams! Only big dreams have the power to move your mind and spirit.

I stayed there loving you, though the love made me, not sad but I guess melancholy, for a reason I couldn’t point to.

I want to be a skater.

And to tell the truth I don't want to let go of the wrists of idleness, I don't want to sell my life for money, I don't even want to come in out of the rain.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap.