When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: "on this Earth I attained Liberation".

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing!

The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.

the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion

We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

We need to reform our school lunch programs. We need to get healthy items into the vending machines.

There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.

Travelling to past lives is like making a hole in the floor and letting the flames of the fire in the apartment below scorch and burn the present

When you conceive something in your mind, know it is a fact, and that there can be no question about its manifestation.

Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.

The size of your promise defines the size of your life.

People have to go through things in order to become the person they are today, and that's that.

Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.

I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet.

My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.