What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.

We suffer because we want life to be different from what it is. We suffer because we try to make pleasurable what is painful, to make solid what is fluid, to make permanent what is always changing.

Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them.

This is bravery: using the challenge of daily life to sharpen our mind and open our heart.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.

If we do not appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the human heart, how can we appreciate the sensitivity and subtlety of the natural world?

The self-assured strength that grows from knowing that we already have what we need makes us gentle, because we are no longer desperate.

Like gravity, karma is so basic we often don't even notice it.

We humans have come to a crossroads in our history: we can either destroy the world or create a good future.

The most outrageous thing we can do in this world is to accept what happens and fly with it.

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.

We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to our former selves, console them, and say: Keep going. I know how the story ends.

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

God has been pleased to prescribe limits to his power and to work out his ends within these limits.

National Socialism is what Marxism might have been if it could have broken its absurd and artificial ties with a democratic order.

Money need not be our only reward.

Are all Cabinets congeries of little autocrats with a super-autocrat presiding over them?

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

I don't feel old or young, I just am

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.