I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

People think you have to go through something to write about it, and you absolutely do not. You can write about, like, a shoe. It’s a story.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

The Tibetan people will need to determine who the next reincarnation of the Dalai Lama is.

That’s another hallmark of truth, is that it snaps things together. People write to me all the time and say it’s as if things were coming together in my mind. It’s like the Platonic idea that all learning was remembering. You have a nature, and when you feel that nature articulated, it’s it’s like the act of snapping the puzzle pieces together.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don’t appreciate the moment until it’s passed.

I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

The nature of the human mind is such that unless it is stimulated by images of things acting upon it from without, all remembrance of them passes easily away.

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

How terribly downright must be the utterances of storms and earthquakes to those accustomed to the soft hypocrisies of society.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

See, people are watching you. Especially your children. They’re taking in every single thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs. And they are always in the record mode. They learn more from what you do than from what you say.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.