The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

You are not going to be perfect every day. It’s about turning up the next day and doing it again.

Silence is an endangered quantity in our time... Silence, embraced, stuns with its presence, its pregnant reality—a reality that does not negate reason and argument, but puts them in their place.

I dont accept the idea that there are two sides to any issue. I think that the middle ground is to be found within most of us.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

What a liberating thing to realize that our problems are probably our richest sources for rising to the ultimate virtue of compassion.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

How we carry what has gone wrong for us is essential to being at home in ourselves, and present to the world with all of its failings.

In many ways, religion comes from the same place in us that art comes from. The language of the human heart if poetry

Only a person who is motivated in the inner depths of his being will help without hesitation and with no obligation for the one helped.

My accent depends on whom I'm around.

True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.

It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information.

If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.

Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu.

Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

I wasn't born, I was unleashed.