That love, in the sense of wishing their happiness, will cause your actions to be effective in relation to that person.

When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.

Wisdom is tolerance of cognitive dissonance.

You should never be ashamed of the suffering you've been through.

Live fully each day to the full . . .

Hate poisons your life.

It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.

Everyone has the same life purpose, which is the quest of happiness for oneself and for others.

I am daily making myself what I am.

A possession can't make you happy.

The worldly person is insane from the point of view of the spiritual person.

Reasonable things would never bring you joy as much as unreasonable ones do.

In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or gender.

Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.

A president can be as strong as she wants to be.

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

And if I was humming "Happy Birthday" and smiling stupidly as I fled for my life—well, that was nobody's business, was it?

To the servant of God... every place is the right place, and every time is the right time.