What makes movies magical is not that incredible things happen in them. Incredible things happen in real life. No, what makes movies magical is they end right after the incredible thing happens.

Are we meant to be pilgrims of the depths?

I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.

Take time every day to do something silly.

Many people learn how to talk, but they don't learn how to listen. Listening to one another is an important thing in life. And music tells us how to do that.

Happiness is in the mind and the mind is the universe. Your mind is the universe, not just this physical universe that you perceive through your senses.

Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.

My long experience with all classes of humanity had made me somewhat of a student of human nature.

I was thinking of resigning since I did not want to be perceived as a man who did the president's bidding to save my job. I have had some time to think about it since. I think I did the right thing

The purpose of studying Buddhism is not to study Buddhism, but to study ourselves.

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.