I don't regret anything. Everything happens for a reason-it's part of the healing process. Life is a healing process.

Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.

I don't mean to toot my own horn, but if Jesus Christ lived in Chicago today, and he had come to me and he had five thousand dollars, let's just say things would have turned out differently.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.

It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, because my job was to shovel snow, and I wasn't there to do it any more, so I was able to buy him a blower.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.