The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.

Anger is something you should only vent in front of intimates, and friends and relations. Never be angry in front of strangers because you lose face.

You never know . . . that's what makes life interesting.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Guard yourself and your conscience no one else will and know that a bad decision at the right time can destroy you far more surely than any bullet!

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

Life and death are the same...Leave karma to karma.

How beautiful life is and how sad! How fleeting, with no past and no future, only a limitless now.

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.

.., by universal custom, your enemy is never more polite than when he is planning or has planned your destruction.

I don't need to kill goats to say things. I CAN talk.

. . . it’s okay if we get mad at each other?”“Yeah, Buddy, it’s OK, as long as we don’t stay mad, and as long as we forgive each other when we mess up.”from upcoming book, "When I Am in Your Arms.

A man shares his days with hunger thirst and cold with the good times and the bad and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

The walk of Faith is to live according to the revelation we have received, in the midst of the mysteries we can't explain.

Pilgrimages are journeys to places of power. People sometimes make pilgrimages to the caves where Milarepa or other great yogis meditated.

Forgive yourself for believing that youre anything less than beautiful.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

I still don't know how to read music.

Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.