If we cut speed and relax with what’s going on in our life right now, kindness and patience will naturally come about.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

Mind over matter represents the triumph of will over physical hindrance. Our thoughts are our weapon against the world.

Look at this lot - how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We're not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we're with him matters.

When we see marriage as our sole purpose, we find ourselves with nowhere to go when we finally arrive.

The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light.

I procrastinate, and I push writing to the last available moment, because I don't like to settle on anything. I guess you can call it indecision or you can call it holding out for inspiration.

I think sometimes big budget means explosions! CGI! CGI, the possibilities are so limitless that it begins to be impractical.

It's not about if I can! I'm doing this because I want to... If I have to die fighting for it, then I die.

Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

To me, the "tape" is the final arbiter of any investment decision. I have a cardinal rule: Never fight the tape!

We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe