“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. ”

“However many holy words you read, However many you speak, What good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?”

“Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.”

“The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”

Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.

“A disciplined mind brings happiness.”

“Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.”

The Internet is crazy, and I love it!

The biggest disabilities are when you sabotage yourself mentally, those personal demons that get on your shoulder and you can't shake 'em.

I feel a lot of personal responsibility to undo the negative stereotypes. I know that it's not coming from a bad place. It's coming from an ignorant place. I can sort of be an ambassador in a subtle way to say, "This is what I am: a comedian, a show host, a writer." It will still always be part of the conversation and people will want to focus on it because there is a culture that is so embedded that if you have a disability, you're someone to be either admired just for living, or be pitied for having to struggle.

Technically I can get out of my wheelchair and crawl around and do things, but when I've traveled and they've lost my wheelchair in transit, I feel like I need to be bound to it. My functionality and autonomy are often bound to this.

No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.

You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.

I think that's where it comes into play, when you are just looking at a document or whatever and you see the word "disability." Does that automatically trigger something in you that denies someone their personhood?

The enlightened one, intent on jhana, should find delight in the forest, should practice jhana at the foot of a tree, attaining his own satisfaction.

Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

If with a pure mind a person speaks or acts happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought.

I will not look at another’s bowl intent on finding fault: a training to be observed.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

You are a seeker. Delight in the mastery of your hands and your feet, of your words and your thoughts.

Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever’s not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.