Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart.

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.

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

Using excuses for the predicament you're in and minimizing your situation, whether it is drug or alcohol use, is a sure sign of an addict.

I'm a great believer in giving people a chance.

Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

It's hard to find rap that I love, you know. I'm one of those rapping a** rappers, but I just fall into a different category because I'm giving the people what they want.

Every generation must re-win its own freedoms.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

I think that a solid team, solid communication, is the number one thing in life at all times.

When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it.

Civil liberties, good. Lawyers, bad.