A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

When it is impossible for anger to arise within you, you find no outside enemies anywhere. An outside enemy exists only if there is anger inside.

Live with compassion. Work with compassion. Die with compassion. Meditate with compassion. Enjoy with compassion. When problems come, experience them with compassion.

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

If one does not remember death, one does not remember Dharma.

By renouncing samsara, we renounce our habitual grasping, unhappy minds. And by renouncing samsara, we embrace our potential for enlightenment.

Life… has a way of testing the fault line

Jewelry is something that has to do with emotion. That aspect of jewelry really interests me.

A good liar must have a good memory. Kissinger is a stupendous liar with a remarkable memory.

It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.

I discovered that magic tricks got me more attention from the girls in my class when I was nine - so a magician was born!

There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.

If you want to learn about the whole government and how it operates, the Appropriations Committee is the best place to learn it.

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.

It seems to be remarkable that death increases our veneration for the good, and extenuates our hatred for the bad.

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you.