It is both dangerous and absurd for our world to be a group of communions mutually excommunicate.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

The source of all light is in the eye.

It is the gospel of the kingdom that makes the difference.

I think one thing people forget is that every technological advance we fetishize had its place in time.

We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.

Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends.

Eating together happily can best be crowned by the vegetarian foods.

They want liberalization! I'll give them liberalization. I'll loosen the screws until the Americans beg me to tighten them again.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

Accuracy first,” I used to tell the writers. “We must never lie by accident, or through slovenliness, only deliberately!