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.

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 you've got nothing to dance about, find a reason to sing.

You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.

Life is not about what happened yesterday nor what will happen tomorrow, it's about this particular moment!

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics.

With luck, it might even snow for us.

Well-mannered children could be conceived if the parents were well-mannered.

I fear nothing and I regret less.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is within yourself.

I'm lucky enough to occasionally be able to do something I love - write poems - and unlucky enough that what I love confuses and overwhelms me.