Expecting to be wrong about most things most of the time brings, finally, the kind of humility that leads to peace. I think.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

I am moonlighting for the Buddha.

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of Americas brittle and mutating id.

Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

When you notice light seeping into your coffin, it's hard to go on pretending that you're still dead.

To a Buddhist, contradictions only exist in a mind that has been forced to cultivate them.

The world other than as advertised can be an amazing place.

There are plenty of brilliant people who are too stressed out to read challenging literary novels.

The more he smiled, the more I wanted to hate him, and yet it was the very thing that made hating him impossible.

There is no greater power on this earth than story.

I do not," I felt oddly appalled by her statement. "I'm an excellent liar. Ask my dentist. He swears I floss regularly.

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.

Tommy (Thompson) is a good listener, and he's a pretty good actor, too.

The game in St. Louis has been halted in the fourth inning because of rain. I'll bet they have the jacuzzis going there.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

History does not repeat itself. The historians repeat one another.

Here is my best advice on the matter of deductibles: just count off on your fingers all the items that you suspect might be deductible - and then forget them, because they aren't.