If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.

I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

Love is the bridge between the earth and the spiritual.

And I am now compelled to wonder if wisdom has ever existed or can ever exist. Might wisdom be as impossible in this particular universe as a perpetual-motion machine?

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

Pitbulls are like a gun you can pet.

I think we ought to call (Republicans who sign the Norquist no tax pledge) exactly what they are - they are traitors and they don't deserve to hold elective office in this country.

Cut, Cap and Balance is worst legislation in history.

Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.

I like the privacy of my life and I protect it quite vigilantly.

Most people that do play nowadays hit really hard. It was good to get someone that hit really hard early on.