In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved How well we have learned to let go

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand. They are the moments when we touch one another.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.

Do not doubt your own basic goodness. In spite of all confusion and fear, you are born with a heart that knows what is just, loving, and beautiful.

Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

The basic principle of spiritual life is that our problems become the very place to discover wisdom and love.

To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit.

You'll be enlightened about how you can alter what you think, feel and believe about money in order to "Get Rich Savvy Chick.

I hate water. It's so boring. And it takes up so much room in your stomach.

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

I have to deal with some dumb folks. It's a real drag.

The Almighty proves his existence by creating.

Love is rebellious bird that nobody can tame, and it's all in vain to call it if it chooses to refuse.

Putting out the things that I like best hasn't been the easiest way to run a label, and it still isn't because it requires finding an audience for each record.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

I try very hard to be annoying. Don’t insult my ability to annoy.

Anytime you get hate, send out love. Then love will come back & you'll be free.