This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

The answer lies within ourselves. If we can't find peace and happiness there, it's not going to come from the outside.

Meditation is for you to realise that the deepest nature of your existence is beyond thoughts and emotions, that it is incredibly vast and interconnected with all other beings.

If we greet situations with a positive attitude, we will eventually create positive returns. If we respond with a negative attitude, negative things will eventually come our way.

In the very deep darkness of this world, little pinpoints of light show up very brightly and can shine a long way.

Our pure awareness is not male or female.

The first thing is to learn how to quiet the mind, relax the mind, and bring the awareness to the front so that we are conscious of what we're doing when we're doing it without all the commentary.

Develop confidence in your innate qualities and believe that these qualities will be brought to fruition.

The Buddha himself said, "I still use conceptual thinking, but I'm not formed by it." And that's the Buddha.

Even if one isn't a committed Buddhist, it just helps us become better human beings.

We have produced many of our problems through our confused mental states.

I have a lot of respect for the musical theater plays.

And each of us can practice rights ourselves, treating each other without discrimination, respecting each other's dignity and rights.

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

The comedy of man survives the tragedy of man.

Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Giving honest and well-intended feedback is often confused with being mean. It's not mean; it's nice.

Consciousness is phenomenologically subjective whenever there is a stable, consciously experienced first-person perspective.