I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

The greatest religion [dharma] is that we keep everyone pleased.

Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.

I had flops, I had success.

Happiness is not an acquisition - it is a skill. We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment.

Calumnies are answered best with silence.

The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

I think it took us nine years to get one million subscribers to AOL, and then in the next nine years we went from one million to 35 million.