In a world that lives like a fist mercy is not more than waking with your hands open.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

You could name practically any problem in the hood and there'd be a rap song for you.

Unrequited love is a ridiculous state that makes you try to convince your heart of something your mind knows is a lie!

Before you examine the body of a patient, be patient to learn his story. For once you learn his story, you will also come to know his body.

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

It's fashionable for modern actors to talk about getting 'inside' a character. But you can't get to the inside without getting the outside right first.

I've always felt like I'm from another planet.

In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics.

Lunar mining is absolutely critical for the development of fusion sources. I'm a very strong proponent of the development of nuclear power, of fusion power.

Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

People can progress only by working and producing more.