I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.

Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.

We've had too many World AIDS Days.

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is the path I am working on

There is a way of looking at an awful place from a certain angle that allows it to take on a beauty because it is what it is.

His Holiness [the Dalai Lama] has told me, urgently and repeatedly, that he thinks my photographs are crap. His exact words were, 'These photos are of poor quality. Why is there no sharp focus? There is no clarity!' I said, 'But your Holiness, it's Goyaesque.' And he said, 'No! It's out of focus!'