“Animal fight to defend their bodies. Humans curse to defend their imagination of themselves.”

“Then be human. Let go and move on. They who hurt you cannot expand their mind. But surely you can.”

“.. The point of human life is to travel from ignorance to wisdom. In ignorance there is fear. In wisdom there peace and tranquillity.”

“that which deludes you to be unhappy can be overpowered by another delusion that causes greater unhappiness”

“Neither death nor wisdom has a full stop. There are only commas-no destinations, only waiting rooms.”

“If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.”

“Nothing is as it seems, but something is everything it is made out to be.”

“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?”

“You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.”

“The great are strongest when they stand alone,A God-given might of being is their force.”

“What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all.”

“We work very hard to have what Buddha gave up to become enlightened. Does that mean we are benighted?”