The idea that you're completing someone else in a marriage to me is death. That to me is a false start and most of us are usually taught that ... you've got to stand on your own. Then you can build something extraordinary.

Food is the only beautiful thing that truly nourishes.

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested.

In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, but it never does.

I always remember what Bob Dylan said in that [Martin] Scorsese documentary on him. When he was asked about Joan Baez's complaints about the way he treated her when they were together, Dylan laughed and said, "It's impossible to be in love and wise at the same time."

Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.