Mind can come. All this world is minds. But something is not concerned with the calculating, interpreting tendency of the mind.

Don't remind the world that it is sick and troubled. Remind it that it is beautiful and free.

No thought has any power. You have power. And when you identify and believe in the thought you give power to the thought.

At the end of the day, you can have something in your head, something in your hand, or something in your heart. What are you choosing?

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.

Who reminds you to breathe and to beat your heart? Something is there, taking care.

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.

You need nothing to be happy - you need something to be sad.

If you seek approval from others in this world, you will not know happiness.

If you do not trust life to unfold, the mind takes over and it becomes a game of strategy, motivated by anxiety. This mistrust is unfair. Life has given us so much, and yet we do not trust it.

If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

Words are weapons of war.

It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.

Give me the character and I will forecast the event.

[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations.

I just continue to be myself and give this thing over to the good lord, just do my best every night and pretend like it's just any other job.

A story in Asimov's is read by hundreds of thousands of people.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

When you find your opponent's weak spot, hammer it.

Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

I really enjoy Martin Sheen - he is very unexpectedly funny, very quick.