When human consciousness stops fooling itself and looks at the situation straight on, it can't cope.

Happiness is a fortress.

You could say that everything had become weirdly distorted because I'd broken the rules so many times.

You see, evil men, the likes of whom have sought to enslave their fellow man since the dawn of creation, took America not by might or strength of arms, but by deception and guile.

They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.

I get so concerned that someone will think I don't care about them that I don't even see they don't care about me.

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.

The only menace is inertia.

Church can be extremely boring. It can be very meaningful, it can be character forming, but can be have very little fizz in it.

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

In both Surfing the Himalayas and Snowboarding to Nirvana, I have tried to transmit as best I could the spirit of humor, and the sense of humor of the monks I have encountered.

Why do I have to follow CNN on Twitter? If I want to follow CNN, I can follow them on CNN.

Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.