The wise are balanced, and the foolish are extreme.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

In our lives, we can either be a reflection of the world around us . . . or a beam that enlightens the lives of others.

Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result

What happened was that none of that [Emmy nomination] really happened. Numbers flew under the radar, and so around the fourth season, I got really jaded and I wanted to quit.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

The police are on the way to arrest you for stealing my heart, hijacking my feelings, and driving me crazy.

Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.

I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.

Independent thinking alone is not suited to interdependent reality.