Elegance means appreciating things as they are. There is a sense of delight and of fearlessness. You are not fearful of dark corners.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

It would have been a hard year if I'd spent it berating myself for not working on the book.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love

There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ.

The Poles do not know how to hate, thank God.

Art Modell was a visionary, a deal-maker and a friend. And he possessed a marvelous sense of humor.