Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

Sometimes a man cannot live up to the best idea they dared to have

The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

Reality had always been something of an unknown quantity to me.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

Cities are broke, there are no jobs, people without a high school diploma and sometimes even with a college degree can't get jobs.