The most basic precept of all is to be aware of what we do, what we are, each minute . Every other precept will follow from that.

Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence.

No argument, no reasoning, no blame, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Understanding and love aren't two separate things, they're just one.

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.

If I don't understand you, I may be angry at you, all the time. We are not capable of understanding each other, and that is the main source of human suffering.

Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.

I am a war president.

With love, when you let it go, life finds the ways and means to grow.

Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.

People are afraid of everything.

Commercial banks are very good for certain businesses, like loans and guarding other people's money. They're not great investors or entrepreneurs.

A spoken story is larger than one unheard, unsaid. In nearly all creation accounts, words or songs are how the world was created, the animals sung into existence.

God sees in you a masterpiece about to happen

I think that any good storytelling lends itself to closing a chapter but also knowing that there's a few more volumes beyond that to dream off of.

Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.