When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me.

Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors.

Generosity does not come from wealth. Wealth comes from the flowers of kindness and love.

A change in thought can change a lot. A change thought can untie and untangle the knot

To find the Tao, there is nowhere you need to search. If it is not inside you, it is not the Tao.

Making good records tastes good in your mouh. And when that record sells, it tastes even better.

The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.

Maybe probably ain’t all that comforting a word when it’s maybe yer not dying.