There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.

If the United States marches into Iraq without the backing of the United Nations, that will be done entirely without the backing of the American people.

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

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

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

Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.

There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.