The Dhamma is revealing itself in every moment, but only when the mind is quiet can we understand what it is saying, for the Dhamma teaches without words.

If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.

Anything which is troubling you, anything which is irritating you, THAT is your teacher.

Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.

If you want a chicken to be a duck, and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer.

All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts.

There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.

Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready, peace will come looking for you.

We practice to learn how to let go, not how to increase our holding on to things. Enlightenment appears when you stop wanting anything.

We only fear due to lack of faith.

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.

Public opinion is a compound of folly weakness prejudice wrong feeling right feeling obstinacy and newspaper paragraphs.

I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

There is a danger to judicial independence when people have no understanding of how the judiciary fits into the constitutional scheme.

I see it as my duty to take a stand for the Iraqi people, for democracy, freedom and reconciliation.

I can do whatever I want. They will tell me if what I am doing is stupid or a total waste of time. I may tell them that they are wrong, and we will come to an agreement.

Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It's more often a succession of jerks.

You cannot have fun with anything that you don't love or admire or respect.

I don't tend to stand still for very long.