I'm younger than I once was. Internally. Less self-conscious. Less insecure.

The reality is, we can change. We can change ourselves. We can change our minds. We can change our hearts. And therefore the universe changes.

I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.

I can’t remember that I was ever looking for anything. I was waiting for something to touch me. It’s like, I’ll be open to it, and see if it moves me. There has to be a "falling in love" moment.

In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.

Everyone responds to kindness.

There are times when telling lies are not a bad thing. It can be a compassionate thing. But to make it benign, you have to be aware of your compassionate reasons for telling that lie.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

People get offended by animal rights campaigns. It's ludicrous. It's not as bad as mass animal death in a factory.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

A wise man once found peace in the practice of saying nothing, leaving the gossiper with no other choice but to fabricate gossip about a wise man saying nothing

Liberty Through Strength II is simply aimed at retaining data that was already available. It has already been collected lawfully.

You need to control the country, and the main thing is not to ruin people's lives.

Your ears are yours alone. Tell others what you alone can hear. Your voice is yours alone. Tell others what only you can say. Your eyes are yours alone. Show others what only you can see.

This isn't a watercolor, it's a mural.

Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.

We must not stand upon trifles.

A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.

God is the poetic genius in each of us.