The background of samsara is bliss

without the bombardment of thoughts, the truth will emerge through intuition.

The ego is the ultimate conspirator.

Pain and suffering have been my most trusted textbook.

Stop digging up the past, lay down your shovel, the past is dead.

The changless part in you recognizes change

Don't respond when the mind snaps its fingers.

When you follow your thoughts you follow a ghost.

The wind plays its own music.

It has taken me quite a few years to realize the fact that most of the thoughts in my head are not necessary.

Our supreme purpose here is to discard our false identity and realize the Atman within.

... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods

A good commander, thought Ender, doesn't have to make stupid threats.

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

If you are a blackman in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a vidio camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.

If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.

The West can't come up with anything to deal with Moscow, except appeasement.

As for a fashion designer, you have those very precise deadlines to keep so you have to renew yourself constantly every three or six months. When you think about it, it's so intense.

All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

We must encourage people to get educated, to get tested, to get involved in the fight against AIDS.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.