It is always a question of knowing and seeing, and not that of believing. The teaching of the Buddha is qualified as ehi-passika, inviting you to 'come and see', but not to come and believe.

As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.

All great work artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual is produced at those moments when creators forget themselves altogether and are free from self-consciousness.

The name one gives is inessential.What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by other name would smell as sweet.

Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ).

In marriage, God rarely starts with the issues on the table. He starts with the ones in our hearts

Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.

When I go on vacation I just like to do nothing - just hang out at the beach, go eat the best restaurants, and do nothing.

Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!

You've gotta learn to love the grind. Because life IS the grind.

If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

But, George and Steven asked me to write the Indiana Jones sequels, and I didn't want to.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.

According to a Public Policy Polling survey, most Americans find lice and colonoscopies more appealing than Capitol Hill.

I'm addicted to when people are bringing you around their country, telling you their stories. They become so enthusiastic, so passionate.