You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall.

Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.

Do not speak unless you can improve on silence, said a Buddhist sage.

I truly believe that I have been given a second chance at life. I never expected the results I have had.

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Move thy tongue, For silence is a sign of discontent.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

Women hope men will change after marriage but they don't; men hope women won't change but they do.

I don't live for the stage. I don't live for an audience.

This is the goal: To make available for life every place where life is possible. To make inhabitable all worlds as yet uninhabitable, and all life purposeful.

It's tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.

Drinking makes uninteresting people matter less and late at night, matter not at all.

A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine.

Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.