First you have to help yourself.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

To be human means to feel inferior.

It's not what you have lost, but what you have left that counts.

I have ideas written down some places, but usually I can't find them. I'm not very organized.

Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it's also very - it's an expensive thing to do.

What's one more meaningless act of violence on that zoo of a planet? It would be appropriate. When in Rome; burn it.

And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.

Books have been my classroom and my confidant. Books have widened my horizons. Books have comforted me in my hardest times. Books have changed my life.

Hate and love are essentially the same in that the person who loves is as easily manipulated as a person who hates

I was just lucky enough to grow up in a time when they actually had drama departments in schools.

I'm headed towards greatness. I think I'm making history in hip-hop.