If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.

We can certainly go further than cats, but why should it be that our brains are somehow so suited to the universe that our brains will be able to understand the deepest workings?

I don't just sing for free. It's my work. You're paid for what you do. And I work hard.

First impressions matter. Experts say we size up new people in somewhere between 30 seconds and two minutes.

Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.

If you KNOW dehydration is a problem in long runs it becomes a problem in long runs.

You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.

The computer revolution has allowed white-collar criminals to do what the Mob would have loved to do - put a pawnshop and a loan shark in every home!

I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.

Free markets are a tool, free speech is a goal.

When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.