The wisdom, the strength, the confidence - the awakened heart and mind are always accessible -- here, now, always.

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.

Beauty becomes beautiful only when it is shared with others.

You know one thing that Mr. Powell taught me? He taught me that sometimes, art can make you forget everything else all around you. That's what are can do.

Creativity is an integral part of existence and it emanates from the mind.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.

Childbirth calls into question our very existence, requiring an expectant couple to confront not only new life but death, pain, fear and, most of all, change.

Men stop trying after a while and get lazy.

Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.