Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.

In the cold morning the rested street stands up To greet the clerk who saunters down the world.

Pretend to be making something until you actually make something.

I think many of my students have followed the advice I gave years ago, to give more than you take.

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

My father did everything for me. He was awesome.

What we do with little kids today will matter in 20 years. If you don't get it right, you will have an unlivable environment. That's the crisis I see.

We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.

History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.

I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.