Today you are the youngest you will ever be, so be bold.

Don't appreciate me, I'm not up to it. Don't criticize me, I don't deserve it. Just be my friend and forgive me, because I am craving for it.

Always be friendly, always be kind, Like the most beautiful flower that you can find.

If you think life is magical or life is hard, either way you are right. Your thoughts are the source of reality.

Writing blooms flowers for mind, which last forever.

No dirt can touch me, like an ocean, everything that comes to me becomes clean.

I drink cup of sunlight every morning to brighten myself.

You are happy when you are enthusiastic and action-oriented, not when you are luxury and pleasure oriented.

A friend is a friend who continues to love you and like you when you don't love him or like him any more.

Live like a tree, giving, forgiving and free.

The moon is the reflection of your heart and moonlight is the twinkle of your love.

You have two things of value: your monastery and your people. Translate the book for me, and I'll let you keep one. Which will it be?

It is hard to be kind to those who smack the hands that feed you.

I am happy to be alone. Perhaps this is true. Or perhaps I am the biggest coward of all.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

Christ--the quickest way to send a bloke mad is to let him go on re-fighting his war till he gets it right.

I have to say that I saw terrorists in 2002, went to Islamabad, Pakistan, and met women who were supporting this ideology. I call them the Taliban Ladies Auxiliary back then.

Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.

The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.

Why can't all different types of women be considered beautiful? Why can't we can't we all be considered possible love interests?