Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Everything is sorrow for the wise.

Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.

It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I'd let the wind wrap around me like fire and slip into the unknown with a moment's hesitation.

When it reaches a blockage, water find the easiest path around the blockage, or it continues to assemble, and flows over the blockage.

It is common error to infer that things which are consecutive in order of time have necessarily the relation of cause and effect.

Idling has always been my strong point.

It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

There have been situations where the people you're around have one vision for you, and it's like trying on a jacket that doesn't fit.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.