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

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 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)

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

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)

Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

A single word often betrays a great design.

I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

I feel like I'm a very good role model for women.

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.

When God places a burden upon you, He places His arms underneath you.

There can be no peace with someone who wants to kill you.

Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'