In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding.

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.

Forgive others often yourself never.

Our condition is most noble being so beloved of the Most High God that He was willing to die for our sake- which He would not have done if man had not been a most noble creature and of great worth.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Nature is an experimenter.

I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.

An inventor is one who can see the applicability of means to supply demand five years before it is obvious to those skilled in the art.

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.

When you step away from it all, you lose perspective.

I just operate on the assumption that all phone conversations are bugged.