It's no use trying to be different than you are.

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.

Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.

Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

We who defend Christianity find ourselves constantly opposed not by the irreligion of our headers but by their real religion.

Hee that gets out of debt, growes rich.

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.

I prefer older people to college kids [as audience] for the most part. I want people with life experience, people that understand where I'm coming from.

Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything

When married people don't get on they can separate, but if they're not married it's impossible. It's a tie that only death can sever.