Many people think excitement is happiness.... But when you are excited you are not peaceful. True happiness is based on peace.

It is my conviction that there is no way to peace - peace is the way.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

If you miss the present moment, you miss your appointment with life. It’s so clear. Mindfulness is the energy and practice that helps you go back to the here and now so that you encounter life.

The bad things, don't do them.The good things, try to do them.Try to purify, subdue your own mind.That is the teaching of all buddhas.

Dear friends, do you know that you are lucky people? You don't have any cows to lose.

The greatest education is the knowledge of God.

My life is build around books.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

I would have to agree, that I'm probably more intense than Brian or Kurt, competitive because, I was always like this, always being that way, always real competitive.

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

It is better to understand a part of truth and apply it to our lives than to understand nothing at all and flounder helplessly in a vain attempt to pierce the mystery of existence.

It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years.

I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.

There is no subsitute for hard work.