The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

Like birds landing on a tree top together, and then dispersing, we are together for a very short time, so it makes sense to live in harmony, in unconditional friendship.

Fear appears from a false vision of reality.

No one had ever accused Koko of being naughty. Perverse, perhaps, or arrogant, or despotic. But naughtiness was beneath his dignity.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

My first wife said, 'It's either that guitar or me,' you know -- and I give you three guesses which one went.

A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.

Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.

What I do to take care of my heart is exercise and try to eat healthy.

Everybody knows everybody's dying, that's why people are as good as they are.

A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.

High school and equality are forever incompatible.