“One can't learn much and also be comfortable. One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable.”

“In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.”

“It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.”

“Well, that is one of the three foundations of learning: see much, study much, suffer much.”

“The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.”

“I pity parents who feel comfortable to feed a thousand chicken but can't feed two kids because one isn't theirs”

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”

“Maybe you can't make the whole body comfortable, but make at least part of the body comfortable and stay with that part. As for the pains, let them be in the other part. They have every right to be there, so make an arrangement with them. They stay in one part, you stay in another. But the essential point is that you have a place where the mind feels stable, secure, and comfortable in the present moment. These are the beginning steps in meditation.”

“One day, you're going to learn something that can't be explained with science. And when that happens, your life's going to change in ways you can't imagine.”

“You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.”