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

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.

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[.]

[A] view of the world is nothing more than a set of beliefs, a way to freeze the world in our mind. … [T]his can never match Reality, … because the world isn't frozen.

Do not ask, "Is is possible?" rather, "Is is worth what it will require of me to make it happen?

North Korea remains the last bastion of undiluted communism in the world.

I've tried to tell the truth. But I would say that, wouldn't I? In any case it has to be my truth. What other truth could I possibly know?

Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

The body grows by food and work, the mind by use, and the soul through joy and pain.

But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.

I've heard drug experts say they believe if penicillin were discovered today, the FDA wouldn't license it.

Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader's senses