How you approach something determines what you will see.

It is confirmation to me that beyond the material world of cause and effect, there is a dimension of spirit waiting for our recognition. We see such a small piece of all the wonder surrounding us.

Truth has to fall on fertile soil.

You are holding in your hands not only a book of readings and instruction for the journey, but one monastic's heart of love held out to a searching world.

There is absolutely no worse death curse than the humdrum daily existence of the living dead.

I think that the failure of newspaper competition in a community is a very serious handicap to the dissemination of the knowledge that the citizens need to participate in a democracy.

I think extremists within the base may very well move the Democratic party away from its pro-Israel position.

Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral.

As it's your 40th birthday This, we'd like to say May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness On this, your special day.

I tell my children, shut up and let me speak. What I've learned, I have been married for 45 years and in my own family It is that I've learned to stop being judgmental, to listen.

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

Intelligence is the ability to solve problems

President Obama is funny, he's thoughtful, he's challenging, he's fun to work with - and it's been an extraordinary privilege.

Monastic life cuts off the distractions and emotional entanglements one becomes involved in, in the lay life.