The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

The difference between misery and happiness depends on what we do with our attention.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

We spend our lives searching for something we think we don't have, something that will make us happy. But the key to our deepest happiness lies in changing our vision of where to seek it.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

What comes up is not nearly as important as how you relate to what comes up.

You are capable of so much more than we usually dare to imagine

All beings want to be happy, yet so very few know how. It is out of ignorance that any of us cause suffering, for ourselves or for others

Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy path, and, if so, let go and change directions.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

Discipline, not the Muse, results in productivity. If you write only when she beckons, your writing is not yours at all.

God help us if we cannot sacrifice our percentages and our programs when He has called us to sacrifice our lives.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

A tap dancer is really a frustrated drummer.

I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water,I simply defrost it.

If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

Real’ is a dirty word in this place.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.