Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

We humans are different--our brains are built not to fix memories in stone but rather to transform them. Our recollections change in their retelling.

Everybody wants a happy life and a peaceful mind, but we have to produce peace of mind through our own practice.

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

It's absolutely amazing what happens when you're consistent in your walk and you're consistent in the way you live your life.

You must always work.

An emotion is an automatic response, an automatic effect of man's value premises. An effect, not a cause. There is no necessary clash, no dichotomy between man's reason and his emotions

We actually are waiting for more people to be killed before we can do something that makes sense. We don't kill enough people in aviation to merit regulatory changes.

You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

Don't worry about losing. Think about winning.

Since hate poisons the soul, don't cherish enmities or grudges: avoid people who make you unhappy.