The compassionate person does not require other people to be stupid, in order to be intelligent. Their intelligence is for everyone, so as to have a world in which there is less ignorance. (118)

Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words. (119)

Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word ‘God.’ (125)

The best religion or practice is the one that makes us better. (42)

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

The ego is like a clever monkey, which can co-opt anything, even the most spiritual practices, so as to expand itself. (155)

[C]hange your thinking, your interpretation of he world, change the way you see! To change the way you see is to change the world. (50)

The depth of our compassion is proportional to the depth of our living. (65)

What is the real origin of my own anger? Is it the ego defending its territory, or is it something that has its source in the desire for the well-being of all? (73)

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there I go to work.

It's probably the worst feeling in the world, when you're deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she's not feeling you the same way, and you don't know why.

There is no inevitability in history except as men make it.

God made us thinking beings, and he guides our minds as we think things out in his presence.

Am I now ready to make some changes.

He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.

There was no business plan, no model. It was just guts.

I really enjoy being an actor!