Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)

Quoting son, Noah Levine: Once you see what the heart really needs, it doesn’t matter if you’re going to live or die, the work is always the same. (25)

Death is perfectly safe. (55)

[D]etachment means letting go and nonattachment means simply letting be. (95)

How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

Relate to the fear, not just from it. (50)

[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)

Jazz is the only lever used by all the riffraff of Tram 83 to switch social class as one would subway cars.

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry.

He shouldn't have resigned over that game. It was not a bad performance; in fact it was quite a good one for England. I would not have resigned under those circumstances.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

One of his officers, Henry Lee, summed up contemporary public opinion of Washington: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.

Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.

Cooking requires confident guesswork and improvisation-- experimentation and substitution, dealing with failure and uncertainty in a creative way

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

We are going to wreak havoc on our opponents' psyche and their plan of attack.