The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Light must come from inside. You cannot ask the darkness to leave; you must turn on the light.

We must never forget that it is through our actions, words, and thoughts that we have a choice.

The most essential thing in life is to establish an unafraid, heartfelt communication with others.

Although we have been made to believe that if we let go we will end up with nothing, life reveals just the opposite: that letting go is the real path to freedom.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

The key to finding a happy balance in modern lives is simplicity.

Speak or act with a pure mind and happiness will follow.

Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.

It is compassion, then, that is the best protection; it is also, as the great masters of the past have always known, the source of all healing.

The ability to see the future does not require sight just Vision and Passion to embrace Change for a better American future.-12-05-2013

Find your place in life, and GROW!

While clothes may not make the woman, they certainly have a strong effect on her self-confidence, which, I believe, does make the woman.

Readers don’t work for writers. They work for themselves.

When I go into the garden, I forget everything. It's uncomplicated in my world of gardening. It's trial and error, really. If something doesn't work, it comes out, and you start all over again.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

There's a reason why in New York Harbor we have the Statue of Liberty, not the Statue of Equality.

It's easy to make a pirate copy when you have digital tapes of things. And it was so complicated and complex to go through all the post-production of a movie without ever going digital.

As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.

In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown.