If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way: on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgmentally.

The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.

Patience is a form of wisdom. It demonstrates that we understand and accept the fact that sometimes things must unfold in their own time.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

Why did dusk and fir-scent and the afterglow of autumnal sunsets make people say absurd things?

Stop worrying about life, no one survived it.

...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. I am the first man to piss his pants on the moon.

As actors, we want to challenges ourselves and put ourselves in different situations to see how we react and deliver a performance.

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.

I had friends of mine tell me they had a baby, and I didn't even know they were pregnant.

It's been a mystery to me and a disappointment why conversation about health care reform hasn't turned more attention to the subject of food.

A big mistake in politics is to think that because an issue appears to have been settled, it doesn't exist anymore. You just sweep it under the rug and pretend it doesn't exist.

Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.