When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

We are all here to contribute our gifts toward something greater than ourselves, and will never be content unless we are.

Is it too much to ask, to live in a world where our human gifts go toward the benefit of all? Where our daily activities contribute to the healing of the biosphere and the well-being of other people?

We are not just a skin-encapsulated ego, a soul encased in flesh. We are each other and we are the world.

Each experience of love nudges us toward the Story of Interbeing, because it only fits into that story and defies the logic of Separation.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

The world is on fire! Why am I sitting in front of my computer? It is because I don’t have a fire extinguisher for the world, and there isn’t a global 911 to call.

The power of attention is much greater than the force of self-restraint.

The radiance of that which wants to be born illuminates the shadows, bringing them into the light of awareness that they may be healed.

I am saying that there is a time to do, and a time not to do, and that when we are slave to the habit of doing we are unable to distinguish between them.

Skill without passion would have been drudgery. Passion without skill would have been torture.

Good deeds awaken the good spirit of every soul.

Just like it is in the life of an individual or an organization, one of the catalysts of progress is discipline and order.

If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.

I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.

Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything.

There are no bigger donkeys than these workers.... Look at our 'craftsmen'; Sad that world history should be be made with such people.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.

I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me.