"If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about."

"It is the nature of babies to be in bliss."

"But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you."

"The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality."

"None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone."

"I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment."

"Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea."

"It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone."