You don't have to be where you find yourself to be.

Who is the self that you are helping?

If you think people should be thanking you instead of you thanking people you've got it backwards

Life is your teacher no matter what. You can't have an experience that doesn't teach you something.

Awareness can be controlled by the world or you can be in control of it. You have the choice. Who is in control, that's the question to keep asking yourself.

In the monastery,  you are always in some kind of a situation where you are pressured so that your worst qualities come up. But you actually want that to happen so you can deal with them

Realize the self of yourself.

The deeper in you go the more unique you become

Once war becomes a clash of absolutes, there is no breathing room for mercy. Absolute truth is blind truth.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

War is not the only arena where peace is done to death.

As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them

For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.

[T]he most viciously intolerant campus I ever visited as a lecturer was Brown, where the humanities program has been gutted by a jejune brand of feminist theory and cultural and media studies.

It's often necessary to hit a second shot to really appreciate the first one.

Pakistan destroyed its own reputation. If anything, I have improved Pakistan's image.

The novelists of the nineteeth century had all the luck. They had a huge and easily pleased public and the world they surveyed had every appearance of permanence.