I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love everything in the universe. That's all I do all day.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.

Calm skies don't make skillful eagles.

Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.

I try to reach for the stars because if you say you want something small and it happens, you don't believe it. So I try to say something wild and crazy.

Universities ought to be aware of the degree they would want to accept funding from governments like China to work on, say, face recognition technology.

The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japans brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.

The shrimp was lousy and the champagne tasted like water [at the Golden Globes

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.