Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

Love remains forever young in their moments of togetherness.

Is globalization about 'the eradication of world poverty,' or is it a mutant variety of colonialism, remote controlled and digitally operated?

You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.

Some days I feel like I'm only the fire hydrant to Westminster dog show.

Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!

I know I have to run 20 more minutes if I eat ice cream. Basically, I eat everything, but I just do more training.

[I'm] almost positive there is no God.

Privilege (to the privileged) means having private laws.