My life will always have dirty dishes. If this sink can become a place of contemplation, let me learn constancy here.

Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals.

As we enter into exquisite awareness of the life that want to live as us, we learn to love deeply. - We claim our passion.

I have found no better way than to value and savor the sacredness of daily living, to rely on repetition, the humdrum rhythm which heals and steadies.

Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are.

When we sit in stillness, we are profoundly active.

I thought it was love, but it wasn't. It was a need to be the right girl for him. I just couldn't understand why I wasn't good enough, or how he could marry her.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things.

It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.

An accepted deed is never small in Taqwa (consciousness of Allah), how can what has been accepted be small?

The nice thing about really intelligent people is that when you talk with them they make you feel intelligent too.

The man who produces while others dispose of his product is a slave.

I can't sit in the same place. I gotta keep going.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

In the beginning God said, the four-dimensional divergence of an antisymmetric, second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light, and it was good. And on the seventh day he rested.

When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.