The ancestor of every destructive action, every destructive decision, is a negative thought.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

I am a man, not a movement, ” he said. “But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part.

It would take a helluva man to replace no man at all.

Vulnerability of all the emotions is the one that is most often mistaken for weakness. In reality however the opposite is true

Frank and explicit - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and confuse the minds of others.

American comedies about Asians have never been funny to me. That always kind of pissed me off.

It's weird how people hate getting older.

Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.

I kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation.

You have to look at fashion from the perspective of high end editors and publications. Read all the magazines--commercial and underground--and your voice will evolve from what you see there.

If we were being attached by space aliens, we wouldn't be playing these kinds of games.