The world comes to us in an endless stream of puzzle pieces that we would like to think all fit together somehow, but that in fact never do.

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

The real ugliness lies in the relationship between people who produce the technology and the things they produce, which results in a similar relationship between the people who use the technology and the things they use.

One could almost define life as the organized disobedience of the law of gravity. One could show that the degree to which an organism disobeys this law is a measure of its degree of evolution.

The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

Is it hard?' Not if you have the right attitudes. Its having the right attitudes thats hard.