If your idea of good opposes something else, you can be sure that [it] is not absolute or certain.

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

[T]here is really nothing 'out there' to get because, already, within this moment, everything is whole and complete.

The impossibility of arriving at Truth by giving up your own authority and following the lights of others. Such a path will only lead to an opinion.

[I]mpermanence [is] the very thing that makes [life] vibrant, wonderful, and alive.

[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.

There's no rule in the end, but only the situation and the inclination of your mind

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

The only way we can be free in each moment is to become what each moment is.

How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?

Truth is not … something to believe or disbelieve. The things we believe are always less than Truth[.]

Open your heartlike a beautiful flower, one petal at a time, love, compassion and kindness, to spread the beautyall around you and feel the joy.

The miraculous intimacy we shared did not have the time to generate into resentful emotional bondage

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Poetry is what I've done my whole life. And every important thing in my life had found itself into poems.

I have a bold plan to break from the Bloomberg years, and end the 'Tale of Two Cities' by providing real opportunity to all New Yorkers, no matter where they live.

I like to make things. Its been part of my identity since I was a kid.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.