The selection of leadership must follow practical considerations. Maybe I look at things too pessimistically?
The death of the self lies in the life of the heart
If you want to know the religion of a man, do not look at how much he prays and fasts, rather, look at how he treats people.
Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom.
Whoever attacks a matter without knowledge cuts off his own nose.
The future of humanity is uncertain, even in the most prosperous countries, and the quality of life deteriorates; and yet I believe that what is being discovered about the infinitely large and infinitely small is sufficient to absolve this end of the century and millennium. What a very few are acquiring in knowledge of the physical world will perhaps cause this period not to be judged as a pure return of barbarism.
What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.
It drives me crazy when people say, "All we're trying to do is create entertainment. " I feel like people go to movies for more than that.
Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.