Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?

If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle.

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

We come to see that not-knowing is perfectly valid, honorable,and authentic place to be, and not in need of transformation. It is a pure expression of transformation, in and of itself, exactly as it is.

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.