“Are you a Buddhist?""No, I'm an asshole. But I keep trying.”

“I must send you into exile, that you may be the coal of her heart. No real thing can be so perfect as memory, and she will need a perfect thing if she is to survive. She will warm herself on the me...”

“The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.”

“Carolyn – I need you to go back into America. We need an innocent heart. We will offer it to Nobununga when he arrives. Do you think you can handle that?”“An innocent heart? In America?” She hesita...”

“In the Library you took your good times where you could find them.”

“As the days and weeks and seasons wore on he found himself repeating this nothing, not wanting to. Gradually he came to understand that this particular nothing was all that he could really say now....”

“Merely by doing darshan of just one kashay free person, ones paap (sins; demerit karmas) get washed away! There can be no kashay-free person other than a Gnani.”

“Lasting harmony between the sexes cannot be achieved through social, psychological, or political reform alone...they are not sufficient in themselves because gender reconciliation entails an inhere...”

“Peace is not just the absence of conflict; peace is the creation of an environment where all can flourish regardless of race, color, creed, religion, gender, class, caste or any other social marker...”

“If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.”

“The trip doesnt exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears so long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will continue to hara...”

“We become what we think!" (Philippians 4:8,9)”