Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim

Suffering = Pain x Resistance

As long as something wants to arise, let it. As long as something wants to last, let it. As soon as something wants to pass, let it.

Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering.

If you can't be disciplined, be clever.

Today’s enlightenment is tomorrows mistake

Live by your own sacred standard.

Our love is like no other

Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, butdo not take from me your laughter.

You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

Tom Kenny is a master of changing a pubic hair this way or that way, and sounding like a totally different character.

People do too much. They say too much.

Man creates both his god and his devil in his own image. His god is himself at his best, and his devil himself at his worst.

When the silent majority opens its mouth, it is usually to yawn.

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.