Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.

If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.

Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifetime ignoring the control I have over my own world. Today is different.

If you don't seize the opportunity, how do you know what will happen? Sometimes you have to take the chance

What's good for General Bullmoose is good for the U.S.A.!

It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.

If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

As a feminist, I'll wear whatever I want to.

These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.

Either the human being must suffer and struggle as the price of a more searching vision, or his gaze must be shallow and without intellectual revelation.

Ultimately it is the yearning to believe that anyone can be brought up to college level that has brought colleges down to everyone's level.