Unconditional good heart toward others is not even a possibility unless we attend to our own demons.

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.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

Don't pray that God's on our side, pray that we're on his side.

See the mice in their million hordes From Ibiza to the Norfolk Broads.

Term limits mean that you don't trust the voters. 'Stop me before I vote again.'

All the great chefs I know - Thomas Keller, Jean-Georges Vongerichten - they are technicians first.

There is no prayer or good work so great, so pleasing to God, so useful to us as the Mass.

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

I think the most emotional part in making the movie and discovering the movie - because it was a process of discovering - is all the scenes with the family.

"It's him," I said. "Typhon." I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!

I think it's very repressive for a woman to be constantly told that she has to make films about women to better represent women, but then the reverse is not found.