Getting cancer can become the beginning of living. The search for one's own being, the discovery of the life one needs to live, can be one of the strongest weapons against disease.

We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.

Growth and change are never easy...If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.

I know that I am a part of something so tremendous, so great, that, if for this reason only, it is holy.

Most of us are pretty good at keeping promises to others and pretty bad at keeping promises to ourselves.

A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it.

I’m glad I married you too, Harper, ” I whispered into her hair, “because I’m in love with you.” But she didn’t hear, gone into a dream.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

Tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee River.

Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are monetary.

It's crazy what you see if you aren't really looking.

These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.

Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!

An hour's hard digging is a good way of getting one's mind back in the right perspective.

It’s no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds.