It's easier to put on a pair of shoes than to wrap the earth in leather.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction.

Author says the ineffectual U.S. Navy of two centuries ago lost two thirds as many men to duelist bullets as to sea hazards.

When giving comes directly from the heart, it can never disappoint or embarrass.

Highfalutin moral principles are impossible guides to foreign policy. At worst, they reflect hypocrisy; at best, extreme naivete.

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

I could stare at you for a lifetime. It would never grow old." "Even when I'm old?" "Even then.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.

Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.

It is not enough to have ideals. We must translate them into action. We must clear our own little corner of creation.