"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

"So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing."

"But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything."

"No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."

"A dream nurtured by daily toil will inevitably outshine a wish born of idle hope. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"To know when to speak and when to listen is the hallmark of genuine discernment. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"We are not merely passive pawns of historical forces nor are we victims of the past. We can shape and direct history."

"A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."