To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good.

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.

Listen to Mr. Complacency long enough and he'll convince you that what you really, really need is a nap.

When you do music, you have no control who comes to your shows.

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I would say to someone if I were trying to tell the story or make the argument.

You know what they say: 'Once you go black, your parents don't talk to you anymore.

I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for.

It is a condition of monsters that they do not perceive themselves as such. The dragon, you know, hunkered in the village devouring maidens, heard the townsfolk cry 'Monster!' and looked behind him.

Talk in order that I may see you.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

I don't suffer from insanity. I can actually say that I enjoy it.

One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave.