Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

You have to expect that if you cuss out the world, The world is going to cuss back.

I did learn a lot from [ Felicia Day], though, and I was able to usurp some of her talent.

Nature is malleable and nature learns.

My life is bigger than basketball.

Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.

"You're important," Nicholas interrupted quietly catching her face and turning her to peer at him. "You're the most important thing in the world to me Jo. I love you. Let me have this moment."

You are pure potential.

I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.

Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.

In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.