Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

The funny thing is, all my friends are short. I wasn’t aware of tall people till I got to high school. I didn’t know they existed. I was sheltered.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.

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?

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

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.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

The thing about delirium is you think it’s great, but it actually isn’t.

The answer is, who you are cannot be defined through thinking or mental labels or definitions, because it’s beyond that. It is the very sense of being, or presence, that is there when you become conscious of the present moment. In essence, you and what we call the present moment are, at the deepest level, one.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

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

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

The public is strongly in favor of the Kyoto Protocols, so strongly in favor that a majority of Bush voters thought that he was in favor of it. They are simply unaware.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

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.

Awareness of universals is called conceiving, and a universal of which we are aware is called a concept.

A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

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.

When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.

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.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

There is always safety in valor.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

Basically what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s almost impossible to drive a jet ski at night time unless you’re in a city with lights lit up so you can navigate. Besides being pitch black, that water turn black at night. Listen, I don’t recommend it.

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

Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I’m fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it’s amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

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.

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

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.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.

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.

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

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

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

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.

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

Our global economy is much more fragile than many of us realize.

Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude is not whether you go to parliament; it’s how you deal with your life, with your surroundings.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.

I’m the slowest driver in the world.