You can't make radical changes in the pattern of your life until you see yourself exactly as you are now. As soon as you do that changes will flow naturally.

The process of becoming who you will be begins first with the total acceptance of who you are.

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

You can learn not to want what you want, to recognize desires but not be controlled by them.

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

No matter how hard you pursue pleasure and success, there are times when you fail. No matter how fast you flee, there are times when pain catches up with you.

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Meditation changes your character.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

Lula, " I said, "do you ever think about getting married?"I guess I do. Doesn't everybody?"You have to let your husband kiss you once you're married. And you have to kiss him

I don't date guys that I just meet randomly. I don't feel comfortable meeting strangers.

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.

The commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' does not say it's O.K. to kill some people and not others.

What's virtue in a man can't be virtue in a cat.

Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

Another symptom of progress toward the Singularity: ideas themselves should spread ever faster, and even the most radical will quickly become commonplace.