Being a mother is hard and it wasn't a subject I ever studied.
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.
Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
This is the secret of propaganda: To totally saturate the person, whom the propaganda wants to lay hold of, with the ideas of the propaganda, without him even noticing that he is being saturated.
I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.
But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.
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.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.