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

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.

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 problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use, even spirituality.

Taking the road less travelled is easier

In literature, as in love, one can only speak for himself.

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.

Laws shouldn't just be about the quality. They should also be about equity and if they're placing a social burden on marginalized groups, then those laws need to be reconsidered.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

Sometimes I even say that I have surpassed Lasker in using psychology. How? Well, sometimes I use psychology with a portion of risk. That is something else, something that Lasker wouldn't allow.