If you do not acquire good training in detachment, you may attach to all the wrong things.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Pain and suffering that are not transformed are usually projected onto others.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

You can unlock spiritual things only from within.

Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.

We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.

People who have been initiated "broke through in what felt like breaking down".

Final authority in the spiritual world does not tend to come from any kind of agenda success but from some kind of suffering. Insecurity and impermanence are the best spiritual teachers.

True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.

Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment instead. It is such a willingness to live with bewilderment that characterizes the true wise man.

You look as scary as a buttered muffin.

In Italy we have not a Common law legal system, we have a stupid one instead!

Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.

There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering.

When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s.

I could be a real jerk on the days I was pitching.

Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.

Leave three Englishmen in a room and they will invent a rule that prevents a fourth joining them.

You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.

What I really mean is that a great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.