When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

Knowing the answer is knowledge and knowing the question is wisdom.

The profoundest thing writing teaches us is how much we contradict ourselves.

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprise.

Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.

The future is not to be forecast, but created.

In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.

There is a love of wood, as of other things that do not answer to our touch.

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.

The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

Just because you're in the driver's seat, doesn't mean you have to run people over.