Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

The spiritual journey is individual, highly personal. It can't be organized or regulated. It isn't true that everyone should follow one path. Listen to your own truth.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.

We're all just walking each other home.

As you dissolve into love, your ego fades. You’re not thinking about loving; you’re just being love, radiating like the sun.

I practice turning people into trees. Which means appreciating them just the way they are

If you want to cure the world, don't emanate fear - emanate love.

Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.

Parallel lines meet at infinity. Looking back from said point, do parallel lines ever not meet?

Are you always so cynical?' said Angelica.'No, ' said Katherine. 'Sometimes I'm asleep.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

This is my best time of the year (spring training). Heck, once the season starts, I go to work.

Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done.

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

The mysteries of Nature and of humanity are not lessened, but increased, by the discoveries of philosophic skill.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.