Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

Work diligently. Diligently. Work patiently and persistently. Patiently and persistently. And you're bound to be successful. Bound to be successful.

If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.

When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.

Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.

The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.

The Buddha never taught a sectarian religion; he taught Dhamma - the way to liberation - which is universal.

One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.

Peace and negativity cannot coexist just as light and darkness cannot coexist.

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

Removing old conditionings from the mind and training the mind to be more equaimous with every experience is the first step toward enabling one to experience true happiness.

In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them!

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.

Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand

I have set and always will set my face like flint against making any difference between one citizen of this country and another on grounds of his origin.

It's a matter of turning your consciousness inward in order to then realize that God is in there, and then you can see him outside too. It's just a shift in attitude, really.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Anything's better than Gen X which is what we got. Thanks Douglas Coupland. We sound like a team of mutant vigalantees with frosted hair and chain wallets. Actually that's not completely horrible.

It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.