My attention determines the depth and quality of my experience.

Love does these three things effectively: multiplies joy, divides trouble, subtracts grief, and adds peace.

Don't judge yourself by your past

Time spent in meditation is as precious as gold.

One square yard of drag will slow a falling body almost twenty percent.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.

We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed.

A handball is when your hand touches the ball.

Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

There's this kind of strange mythology about me in the media because I've done unusual things.