No one knows how this world came into being. It is a creation of consciousness itself. It's extraordinary, a mystery.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

On even the darkest of days, the brightest thing in my life is you.

The law does not expect a man to be prepared to defend every act of his life which may be suddenly and without notice alleged against him.

Rich peoples kind words doesn't fill up the empty stomach of poor people

Imagination is the deceptive part in man, the mistress of error and falsehood.

This world's divided into two kinds of people: the hunter and the hunted. Luckily I'm the hunter. Nothing can change that.

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

All men seek esteem; the best by lifting themselves, which is hard to do, the rest by shoving others down, which is much easier.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

It is crazy to postulate a trillion (causally unconnected) universes to explain the features of one universe, when postulating one entity (God) will do the job.

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.