When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.

Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

Whoever said “Success is 80% Joy and 20% Hardwork” must have chased the latter 20% not ignoring the first 80%. Follow the Joy route and the power is already lost.

She was a pixie, a fairy, full of imagination and in another world.

It’s when I’m around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now

Love is the most beautiful thing that can happen to someone. No one can explain that feeling and desires engrossing a person preparing to give their heart to someone.

Mentally it is possible to break records, once you understand that, you can do anything.

I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

The vision of a blood-washed Africa propelled me to go from Cape Town to Cairo and start Christ for all Nations.

Last week I did a piece for Style on advice to Laura Bush about how to help her husband. This week it's religion. It just depends on what I find interesting at the moment.