You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.

Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

Compassion is the ability to see what needs doing right now and the willingness to do it right now.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

The truth comes when you can see that your self-image is just a convenient reference point and nothing more, and that you as you had imagined yourself do not exist.

Do what you do as well as you possibly can. That's Buddhist morality.

Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.

Your role is to do and say the things that need to be done and said from your unique perspective.

Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.

You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die.

I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, As long as I'm living, my baby you'll be.

And stop talking in that puffed-up way they taught you. Words aren't brains, you know.

That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty.

The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

The most important part of every business is to know what ought to be done.

I wrote for Roseanne. I wrote her stand-up act with her. I wrote with Tom Arnold. There was a period when I was working with them pretty steadily. But I would take brief gigs here and there.

[The disestablishment of religion] may not have been such a good idea.

The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.

A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put.