We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.

We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

Rock 'n' roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

Great self-skills are self-confident, self-courage and self-steadiness.

My mouth could say goodbye, but not with my heart

Wealth is defined in many ways, yet freedom might be its best indication.

He who didn't succeed at his own dreams, was too busy listening to another's failures.

The food chain has victims at both ends: even rapists and murderers need someone to look down on, and kid killers will do nicely.

My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably are times, that it is human to be inhuman.

I think Hollywood has a habit of developing 100 times more than they actually shoot.

I'm like a monk with a taste for hookers.