When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

You are awareness, disguised as a person.

...the past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whaterver form. Both are illusions.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

Space and silence are two aspects of the same thing. The same no-thing. They are externalization of inner space and inner silence, which is stillness: the infinitely creative womb of all existence.

True communication is communion- the realization of oneness, which is love.

It is better to focus on the mission than to earn money.

I took my .38 out and looked to see that there were bullets in all the proper places. I knew there would be, but it did no harm to be careful. And I'd seen Clint Eastwood do it once in the movies.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

I start work at 5 in the morning and I have a wicked insomnia problem.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Is that an invitation?” “I suppose it is.” “Good.” Cade’s voice dropped lower, adding one last thing before hanging up. “And tell your friend in the striped shirt that he’s in my seat.

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

Smiling can be a competitive advantage. It makes everyone feel better and every situation brighter.

It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all.