When people pressure you to engage in negative decisions and actions, look at them boldly in the eyes and dare them to do good.

Goals reveal your path to success, greatness and significance. Become a master goal setter and you will chart the course of your life.

Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.

The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves “inside the skin” of the other.

A wise son maketh a glad father.

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.

I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.

What is the purpose of the universe?" is a silly question.

I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

He also always blesses humble beginnings much more than those accompanied by a lot of show.