Western Buddhists in many ways are much serious Buddhists than Tibetans are.
RICHARD GERE I cry every chance I get.
RICHARD GERE What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have thi...
RICHARD GERE I would rather be loved than have money and all that other stuff.
RICHARD GERE When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.
RICHARD GERE When His Holiness won the Nobel Peace Prize, there was a quantum leap. He is not seen as solely a Ti...
RICHARD GERE Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.
RICHARD GERE There's really one character for every actor. The voyage is to find that one character.
RICHARD GERE There is nothing real about film. Nothing. Even the light particles that project the film can't ...
RICHARD GERE All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
RICHARD GERE I've stayed good friends with most of my girlfriends.
RICHARD GERE I can't say I have control over my emotions; I don't know my mind. I'm lost like everyon...
RICHARD GERE People don't understand what happiness is, so they have an idea of what will make them happy, bu...
RICHARD GERE When someone has a strong intuitive connection, Buddhism suggests that it's because of karma, so...
RICHARD GERE The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.
RICHARD GERE In saving Tibet, you save the possibility that we are all brothers, sisters.
RICHARD GERE I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.
RICHARD GERE I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.
RICHARD GERE I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.
RICHARD GERE The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE I'm not that tough; I'm not that smart. I need life telling me who I am, showing me my mind ...
RICHARD GERE I have made plenty of mistakes. The key to life is to learn from them. I have been a little too intr...
RICHARD GERE Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
RICHARD GERE Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of ...
RICHARD GERE The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, bec...
RICHARD GERE I have no sense of time, and I'm a dreamer.
RICHARD GERE Everyone responds to kindness.
RICHARD GERE I think most of our religious institutions are pretty corrupt, so they're not reliable. I think ...
RICHARD GERE Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation...
RICHARD GERE Maybe the Dalai Lama is the only person who is totally honest, and even with him, he's skillful ...
RICHARD GERE I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd...
RICHARD GERE There are some problems on this planet that seem to be intractable.
RICHARD GERE I've had an interesting life.
RICHARD GERE This is an outrage. There are no freedoms in China. There are no freedoms in Tibet.
RICHARD GERE What I can do is find the keys that will plug into my own 30 years of training in Buddhism, and find...
RICHARD GERE To read your own mind is to look at your self and read your soul. Hatred becomes love and that is th...
RICHARD GERE We've had too many World AIDS Days.
RICHARD GERE It'd be different if he was staring somebody down with a loaded gun in his hand. But there doesn't s...
RICHARD GERE It was poetic and playable, literate,
RICHARD GERE If we do this work now, we may save 10, 15 million lives. It gives you a lot of focus. I mean, how m...
RICHARD GERE It made more money the second time.
RICHARD GERE The president of the United States coming there in a world where he's seemingly obsessed with terror...
RICHARD GERE If this crisis hits them to the degree it's expected to, we've lost Asia.
RICHARD GERE Take part in the elections.
RICHARD GERE Bush's plans for war are a bizarre bad dream.
RICHARD GERE The Late Show With David Letterman.
RICHARD GERE She was totally open in the process of making the movie and generous, all of that stuff, but she mad...
RICHARD GERE I thought it was an interesting ensemble of characters, all of them searching in their own bumbling ...
RICHARD GERE I had the sense he was covering hysteria.
RICHARD GERE Why is it when we have 10 million people in this country who say 'No', we still have a president who...
RICHARD GERE I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope all ...
RICHARD GERE People's reaction to opera the first time they hear it is extreme, ... They either love it or they h...
RICHARD GERE I'm totally shocked. I never win anything. And I didn't even want to do this movie!
RICHARD GERE I'm a 50 year-old guy and I'm not in shape like I was when I was 30.
RICHARD GERE I'm voting for Gore because the other is unthinkable. Which most of us will probably do. I hope ...
RICHARD GERE When you work as an actor, you've got to feel safe even in what appears to be the simplest thing...
RICHARD GERE It's nice to have money, but the first thing I did with money was buy my father a snow-blower, b...
RICHARD GERE His track record is fully in keeping with the mentality and direction that this group is going. Betw...
GERE DALE Instead of being forthright and responsive to their constituents, the thing I really gag on is they'...
GERE DALE It isn't like this is something that came up all of a sudden with commissioner Jordan.
GERE DALE In the short term, all sorts of industries in Western European countries -- and in the long term in ...
FRANCOIS GERE Europe has looked at terrorism differently since the attacks in London, even if the terrorism we're ...
FRANCOIS GERE We are not at the point where we would use the measures Israel does, but we understand them better.
FRANCOIS GERE There is absolutely no discussion of punishment for the moment in the French approach.
FRANCOIS GERE I just feel better about those companies who are in growing categories and have dominant market shar...
JASON GERE We are expecting the stock to sell off today, especially after a nice run in recent weeks, and once ...
JASON GERE While some may make a big deal about this, we don't believe there is any reason to worry.
JASON GERE Kimberly-Clark is currently facing a number of global challenges, including commodity cost pressures...
JASON GERE The fact is that a bill allowing any employer to deny insurance coverage based on a moral objection ...
RICHARD CARMONA One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our...
RICHARD BACH The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
RICHARD CECIL From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business...
RICHARD BRANSON I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
RICHARD WAGNER There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in th...
RICHARD O'BRIEN I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes ...
RICHARD AVEDON Primates need good nutrition, to begin with. Not only fruits and plants, but insects as well.
RICHARD LEAKEY I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
RICHARD BACH Learning is finding out what you already know.
RICHARD BACH Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
RICHARD BACH Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
RICHARD BACH If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
RICHARD BACH You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
RICHARD BACH Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting a...
RICHARD BACH Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your unders...
RICHARD BACH I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities ...
RICHARD HAMMOND All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
RICHARD BRAUTIGAN No tyrant, however evil, has yet lacked ready hands to execute his most abominable will. To read how...
RICHARD JEFFERIES Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought...
RICHARD BRANSON Basically, what you really want to do is try to engage the viewer's body relation to his thinkin...
RICHARD SERRA I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and...
RICHARD HOLBROOKE The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpilla...
RICHARD BACH Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
RICHARD BACH If I never do another thing, I've met the good, sweet people of the world.
RICHARD DAWSON I've had the most incredible luck in my career.
RICHARD DAWSON 'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.
RICHARD DAWSON It's important to me that on 'Family Feud' I could kiss all the people. It sounds crazy ...
RICHARD DAWSON I never dreamed I would have a job in which so many people could touch me and I could touch them.
RICHARD DAWSON The thing that I loved about 'Feud,' we froze a moment in time for these families that had n...
RICHARD DAWSON They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.
RICHARD DAWSON There were people I know that got upset that I kissed people; I kissed them for luck and love, that&...
RICHARD DAWSON The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go...
RICHARD DAWSON You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.
RICHARD DAWSON It's wonderful to win, but don't get cocky about it!
RICHARD DAWSON And I asked my mother about it; I said, 'Is there something wrong?' She said, 'God... Go...
RICHARD DAWSON God bless all the little children in the world.
RICHARD DAWSON About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.
RICHARD DAWSON Be nice to each other. You can make a whole day a different day for everybody.
RICHARD DAWSON I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
RICHARD DAWSON Most profoundly deaf people have speech that is very difficult to understand.
RICHARD MASUR You have to give access to people with disabilities but there is no requirement to hire them. What I...
RICHARD MASUR Being an actor myself I realize that all actors believe they are qualified to play any role. If you ...
RICHARD MASUR I know deaf people. I have discussed the issues with them I've also thought about them a lot so ...
RICHARD MASUR You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.
RICHARD MASUR No one will ever argue that someone could have played Helen Keller better than Patty Duke. It was an...
RICHARD MASUR Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway ridi...
RICHARD MASUR But people who think they can project themselves into deafness are mistaken because you can't. A...
RICHARD MASUR There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.
RICHARD MASUR For example, the first time McDonald's put a deaf person in a commercial they saw a jump in sale...
RICHARD MASUR The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training grou...
RICHARD MASUR I don't know about you, but every time some joker points me out as I walk through an airport wea...
RICHARD SIMMONS The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no des...
RICHARD DAWKINS Our systems are all go. At 9:30 Monday morning trading will resume on both markets, and the message ...
RICHARD GRASSO For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless...
RICHARD ENGEL To those who would call me a thug or worse because I show passion on a football field - don't ju...
RICHARD SHERMAN I know some 'thugs,' and they know I'm the furthest thing from a thug. I've fought t...
RICHARD SHERMAN I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had...
RICHARD MARX For my wife Mary Corliss and me, 'Colbert' has been destination viewing. Even in the early y...
RICHARD CORLISS For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that ...
RICHARD COURANT Indiana taxpayers, retired Hoosier state policemen and teachers are neither greedy speculators nor u...
RICHARD MOURDOCK I think the humor of double puns is incredible.
RICHARD LEDERER To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to...
RICHARD BRANSON I've been very passionate about renewable energy for many years, particularly solar energy and i...
RICHARD BRANSON A good leader doesn't get stuck behind a desk.
RICHARD BRANSON The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
RICHARD BRANSON One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
RICHARD BRANSON Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the peopl...
RICHARD BRANSON A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does...
RICHARD AVEDON If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, - Angels alone that soar above, Enjoy such lib...
RICHARD LOVELACE Bishops sit in the House of Lords automatically.
RICHARD DAWKINS It's not correct to say Jesus is God. Now, don't run and report me to the bishop, all right?...
RICHARD ROHR Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance abo...
RICHARD CORLISS I wrote about real people and real circumstances and real neighborhoods. There was no crypt or castl...
RICHARD MATHESON I've never really been star struck. I was a little bit taken aback when I was doing a chat show ...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN My most difficult thing so far, to be brutally honest, has been to waltz as if I knew what I was doi...
RICHARD ROXBURGH Leave part of the yard rough. Don't manicure everything. Small children in particular love to tu...
RICHARD LOUV In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and broo...
RICHARD FORD I'm also interested in creating a lasting legacy for collectors because bronze will last for tho...
RICHARD MACDONALD Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were ...
RICHARD FOREMAN But what does interest me is the notion that if you do a lot of work it means there's a potentia...
RICHARD SERRA I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b...
RICHARD RODGERS I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I wa...
RICHARD MARX Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance...
RICHARD STALLMAN Unfortunately, more and more Muslim voices are calling for boycotts of the United States and its pro...
RICHARD NEAL The black groups that boycott certain films would do better to get the money together to make the fi...
RICHARD PRYOR There are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will...
RICHARD CORLISS If you think of the 1930s in film as the decade of Gable and Lombard, Cagney and Harlow, Stanwyck an...
RICHARD CORLISS The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
RICHARD WRIGHT I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.
RICHARD O'BRIEN I think you always have to find where the boundary is in relation to the context in order to be able...
RICHARD SERRA The Saudis, and in some cases the CIA, had encouraged and funded their foreign jihads, and these men...
RICHARD ENGEL On August 3, 2012, the fifteenth day of the government offensive, rebels in the city said they were ...
RICHARD ENGEL ...if the United States never intended to help, it shouldn’t have built up the expectation. The fa...
RICHARD ENGEL It took from 1967 to 2003—over three decades—to build the big men. It took a decade—2003 to 20...
RICHARD ENGEL When the Furies were released in the Middle East, an evil emerged beyond my worst imaginings.
...
RICHARD ENGEL the United States decided it was not going to intervene in Syria—at least for the time being. The ...
RICHARD ENGEL This was the first time I had come face-to-face with the other side of fundamentalism. The fundament...
RICHARD ENGEL Ironically enough, the United States had almost nothing to do with the age-old conflict between Isla...
RICHARD ENGEL The Crusades, waged intermittently from 1095 to 1291, but which continued in waves for centuries aft...
RICHARD ENGEL Ottoman provinces were re-formed and cobbled together into states. The region was carved up with lit...
RICHARD ENGEL These days, I no longer believe there ever are truly good guys or bad guys in war, at least in the M...
RICHARD ENGEL When I take risks now, I do so only when I have to and with every precaution. I used to prospect for...
RICHARD ENGEL Everything changed with the First World War. The Middle East was reorganized, redefined, and the see...
RICHARD ENGEL MOST OF THE NATIONS OF the Middle East can be divided into those with long histories and no oil, and...
RICHARD ENGEL ...in the assassination of three of its first four caliphs, the “successors” to Mohammed and rul...
RICHARD ENGEL The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a bri...
RICHARD BRANSON The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current d...
RICHARD CORLISS I was really disappointed that Warner Bros. didn't think highly enough of my film or my filmmaki...
RICHARD DONNER There are risks in the sheer brevity of Twitter, and it's actually quite an elegant art reducing...
RICHARD DAWKINS Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small ...
RICHARD THALHEIMER Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not real...
RICHARD FEYNMAN As the enjoyment of God is the heaven of the Saints, so the loss of God is the hell of the ungodly. ...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 I apprehended it a Matter o...
RICHARD BAXTER Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691 Lord, it belongs not to my car...
RICHARD BAXTER Ye holy angels bright, Who wait at God's right hand, Or through the realms of light Fly at your L...
RICHARD BAXTER Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass....
RICHARD PETTY One time Robert Plant was set to check into the same room after I checked out, so I removed every li...
RICHARD MARX I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat a...
RICHARD COBDEN Aerodynamics is mathematics for those who haven't learned to do calculus. In my case, too, for o...
RICHARD BACH You know, there's a real irony in U.S. assistance programs. First of all, I think it's misna...
RICHARD ARMITAGE Puberty for me was graduating from Thousand Island salad dressing to Caesar salads. It was like goin...
RICHARD SIMMONS A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebt...
RICHARD CARMONA But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and...
RICHARD SIMMONS My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. I try to be the clown and court...
RICHARD SIMMONS Anybody who has something sensible or worthwhile to say should be able to say it calmly and soberly,...
RICHARD DAWKINS People from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to ...
RICHARD BRANSON I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around i...
RICHARD WAGNER I want the market to work if it can, and most of the time it will, but not without some pain.
RICHARD SHELBY Taking bold action on climate change simply makes good business sense. It's also the right thing...
RICHARD BRANSON If you want to devote yourself to the arts, you'd better do it strictly from passion, because th...
RICHARD LEWIS In this digital age, it doesn't really matter if you are in Canary Wharf or the Caribbean; there...
RICHARD BRANSON