Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

All you need to know is that the future is wide open and you are about to create it by what you do.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Feel the feelings and drop the story.

The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.

All situations teach you, and often it's the tough ones that teach you best.

A century ago man’s chief concern was his spiritual life

I thought of what my mom had said. "You talk like a man." It was easier to talk like a man than to be one.

There's been nobody who stays in more communication and listens to veterans more than I do.

Americans are very practical folks. Accustomed to hard choices in their own lives, they are willing to give us in intelligence a lot of slack as we make the hard choices our profession demands.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.

Real literature, like travel, is always a surprise.

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.

It says something about this new global economy that USA Today now reports every morning on the day's events in Asian markets.

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.