“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.”

“Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real.”

“I just don't know," I said, my voice sounding bumby, not like mine, "how do you help someone who doesn't want your help. What do you do when you can't do anything?”

“You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave”

“When you read sutras don't seek to understand them. Stay in touch with precisely what they are eliciting in terms of experience in you.”

“Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.”

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

“When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.”

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”