Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies.

I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

It's interesting work for me to tell my life, as a possibility for other people to relate it to themselves - not so much to learn about me.

O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.

A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.

The American people want solutions to the problems our country faces. They may disagree on exactly how to address the issues, but they want them addressed all the same.