Without a rigorous, self-critical discourse, one risks lapsing into pious platitudes and unexamined generalizations.

The origin of the conflict, frustration, and anxiety we experience does not lie in the nature of the world itself but in our distorted conceptions of the world.

Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.

Consciousness is an emergent, contingent, and impermanent phenomenon. It has no magical capacity to break free from the field of events out of which it springs.

While 'Buddhism' suggests another belief system, 'dharma practice' suggests a course of action. The four ennobling truths are not propositions to believe; they are challenges to act.

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

In taking life for granted, we fail to notice it.

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.

The greatest threat to compassion is the temptation to succumb to fantasies of moral superiority.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.

This body is fragile. It is just flesh. Listen to the heartbeat. Life depends on the pumping of a muscle.

The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.

I'm not letting any 17 year old beat me tonight

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn’t there a black exodus?

Golf has too much walking to be a good game, and just enough game to spoil a good walk.

I'd get invited to parties, and instead it would be these abandoned houses.

I was one of the first print models to go on the runway because I wanted to do runway. When I started doing the shows, I was the only print girl there.

After a lifetime of engaging in long, passionate discussions I have come to the conclusion that it is a waste of time trying to convince anyone of anything.

Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

My clothes are very popular in Japan.