In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Words matter. All semester, we were looking for the words to say what we needed to say. We were all looking for our voice.

The majority of the common people do not realize how corrupt the legal system has become until that blatant corruption shows up at their own homes.

I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.

I've always been a good returner since my junior days - I don't know why that was.

Charlie Christian showed me a lot, and was a great help, but even then, I realised that if I was going to make it, it was no use copying Charlie

The guys I tended to date, you know, didn't necessarily have it altogether but I had a great time.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

Under the snowdrifts the blossoms are sleeping, Dreaming their dreams of sunshine and June, Down in the hush of their quiet they're keeping Trills from the throstle's wild summer-sung tune.

Smiling can be a competitive advantage. It makes everyone feel better and every situation brighter.

I earned the name from the Greek god Zelos who is the god of rivalry.