My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

The Buddha-nature which is ours from the very beginning is like the sun which emerges from the clouds, or like a mirror which, when rubbed, regains its original purity and clarity. (217)

I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice - A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice.

That's just the business of boxing. Things just turned out that way. I don't think it was any particular reason. I had opportunities to fight in bigger fights, but things just didn't always work out.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.

Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is not true.

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.

Some of my best men are women!