«It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.»

«In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.»

«Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.»

«It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.»

«It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.»

«It may come as a severe shock if you haven?t given much thought to this subject before?but our precious, cast-in-stone, ?objective? beliefs are often totally in contrast to any reality. Or, more accurately, they are our perception of reality, rather than reality itself.»

«Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soy beans»

«It is only the tree loaded with fruit that the people throw stones at»

«In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different.»

«Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.»