If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.

Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.

A further sign of health is that we don't become undone by fear and trembling, but we take it as a message that it's time to stop struggling and look directly at what's threatening us.

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

We can learn to act and think in ways that sow seeds of our future well-being, gradually becoming more aware of what causes happiness as well as what causes distress.

Abandon hope.

Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha.

There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life.

Weaponry is a fear-raising idea.

We are not subjects of an autocratic King, but are citizens of the country contributing to the advancement of our people who pay taxes out of their hard earned income.

The most basic elements of our life—our birth and our death—are out of our control. People spend a lifetime trying to control these things but it’s impossible.

I went to USC for writing. I was judgmental of actors and their Starbucks and fancy cars.

The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.

Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.

A good portrait is incredibly hard to create, there is too much temptation to pander to the individual rather than portray them as they really were

Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us.

Dracula isn't just another vampire show. It's something entirely different that I personally feel I've never seen on American TV before.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.