Very few people know the real meaning of friendship. More often than not, there is too much emphasis on sentiment, and too little on action. Metta is something that must be lived.

Love where there is no reason to love

Outer achievements should be expressions of inner abundance, not compensation for inner poverty.

To be able to do one thing at a time is the whole art of life.

A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.

Today you have added another candle of knowledge and wisdom to your life. May it give you the power to enlighten the whole world. On your birthday, I wish you joy and happiness.

It was all about survival. That's all it had ever been about.

Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.

The world hasn't ended, but the world as we know it has-even if we don't quite know it yet.

The place of exciting innovation - where the action is - that's Rhode Island!

I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior.

If we allow our self-congratulatory adoration of technology to distract us from our own contact with each other, then somehow the original agenda has been lost.

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.

The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.

I'm not anti-immigration.