True compassion is undirected & holds no conceptual focus. That kind of genuine, true compassion is only possible after realizing emptiness.

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

There! Now we're friends!" declared the minx. "Say you're sorry about my sister -""I am desolated!""That's a good boy!

(In response to a picture critic.) I'm actually a very joyful person. But being a genius with a photographic memory mixed with a strong case of OCD makes for a difficult picture sometimes.

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least.

I have the capacity to express what I feel needs to be expressed. And I try to do what I believe in.

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

No law is sufficiently convenient to all.

When you have nothing to lose, the sky's the limit.