If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

The heart is always the place to go. Go home into your heart, where there is warmth, appreciation, gratitude and contentment

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.

A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

The Buddha compared anger with picking up hot coals with one's bare hands and trying to throw them at the person with whom one is angry. Who gets burned first? The one who is angry of course.

"Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth.

As long as we have practiced neither concentration nor mindfulness, the ego takes itself for granted and remains its usual normal size, as big as the people around one will allow.

If we do not try, we will not know.

Mindfulness is a mental activity that in due course eliminates all suffering.

Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

It's too late.I chose life too late.

All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?

A conservative is a liberal mugged by reality.

The mathematician lives long and lives young; the wings of his soul do not early drop off, nor do its pores become clogged with the earthy particles blown from the dusty highways of vulgar life.

We have 50,000 moments of truth every day.

I had a hard time with bullying. I ate lunch in the bathroom.

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

Design has become the cover for unnecessary consumption.

The only way to get better at stand-up is to do loads of gigs, and I don't know. I spread myself pretty thin to get the stage time. I'd love to do more, really.