When we are using this term 'basic goodness,' we are talking about our inherent completeness.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Mostly, all book-told gods are as little as the little men who wrote them idiots into existence.

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air

Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all.

The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow.

Greed, accident, or malice may have harmful results, but, barring something truly apocalyptic, a resilient system can absorb such results without its overall health being threatened.

I've had horror movies thrown at me and I just don't want to do any because violence isn't really good for society.

We are to serve everyone we encounter, even those who we might consider "the least."

I can't give you the moon,” the tinker said. “She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.