If you want to attain peace, live peacefully

Once you know your deepest wish you can base your life on intention rather than craving

You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace.

Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to act

Who are you in the silence between your thoughts?

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices.

To be 'free' only when things are pleasant is not real freedom.

It can be easy to love all beings from a distance; it can be a great challenge when we have to live with them.

Nothing whatsoever is worth the cost of a contracted heart.

Freedom from clinging gives room in our hearts to grow.

Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward.

Celebrate life as it is, let it go to find out what it could be.

We are whiplashed between an arrogant overestimation of ourselves and a servile underestimation of ourselves.

I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.

And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you - all of you on the good Earth.

If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

A display connected to a digital computer gives us a chance to gain familiarity with concepts not realizable in the physical world. It is a looking glass into a mathematical wonderland.

Phil [Wood] was known for having a little bit of a gruff manner, but he was all heart.

My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that.

Anything that prevents you from being friendly, a good neighbour, is a terror tactic.