To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.

My religion is to live and die without regret.

In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.

All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life.

Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

If you boiled down the gospel to one word, it would be love.

it is with this same imperialism that present-day simulators attempt to make the real, all of the real, coincide with their models of simulation.

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory is won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work.

Poems are other people's snapshots in which we see our own lives.

Me releasing my music, if anything, is an opportunity to show the world my stories and tell the world my stories.

It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. I mean, that's not normal.

I would be more frightened as a writer if people thought my movies were like science fiction.

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

If you aim at nothing, you will hit it every time.