The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.

In the face of impermanence, if your next thought is good, this is what we call the realization body.

Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior

When you're blind to your own nature, the Buddha is an ordinary being. When you're aware of your own nature, an ordinary being is the Buddha.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Your experience is nutrition. You digest your experience and you grow from it.

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.

Tibetan Buddhism, has inspired me and accelerated my understanding of life.

At the heart of all good fiction and at the heart of all good gossip is the same thing: trouble.

The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

The challenges some European economies have are such that it makes it very difficult for them. You have to go where the growth is.

I need to be very careful about going on certain networks that seem to have a bias.

It is cruelty to be humane to rebels, and humanity is cruelty.