"An hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds."

"Wikipedia is just an incredible thing. It is fact-encirclingly huge, and it is idiosyncratic, careful, messy, funny, shocking and full of simmering controversies - and it is free, and it is fast."

"Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism."

"Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."

"Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally."

"There are people who appear in the magazines and I don't know who they are. I've never seen anything they've done and their careers are over already. They're famous for maybe 10 minutes. Real careers, I think, take a long time to unfold."

"A visionary sees the unseen and knows the roots of true happiness grow deep in the present moment."

"Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of."