I am not stupid. I am a very bright guy. I know that in the fighting game, you get people who get brain damage and do themselves long-term harm.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don’t see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

People are unaware of what is going on. When I talk to people, they know the basics, they know the planet is warming because of greenhouse gases… but they don’t know the actual consequence of that.

People were asleep, but I think they’re waking up now. Trump has given everybody a good kick, and people are waking up and realizing they’ve got to get involved.

It doesn’t take long to become aware of the presence of the CIA in Laos.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.

I want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.

I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

When you’re not engaged in the day-to-day struggles that everybody feels, you slowly start losing touch. And I think it’s important for the people in the White House to have a finger on the pulse.

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

Emotions are continually affecting our thought processes and decisions, below the level of our awareness. And the most common emotion of them all is the desire for pleasure and the avoidance of pain.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

September 11 shocked many Americans into an awareness that they had better pay much closer attention to what the U.S. government does in the world and how it is perceived. Many issues have been opened for discussion that were not on the agenda before. That’s all to the good.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

By stopping flying, you don’t only reduce your own carbon footprint but also that sends a signal to other people around you that the climate crisis is a real thing and that helps push a political movement.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

Sexism is everywhere, bro. I don’t know if it’s ever not somewhere.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

Nine men in ten are would be suicides.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.