When the basis for your actions is inner alignment with the present moment, your actions become empowered by the intelligence of life itself.

The past has no power over the present moment.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness.

Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfillment, for validation, security, or love - you have a treasure within that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.

In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being.

Observe your thoughts, don't believe them.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

You are not separate from the whole. You are one with the sun, the earth, the air. You don’t have a life. You are life.

We all have the Wisdom to understand that sooner or later Life will end, but we don’t have the Willpower to Live before we die.

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

The future of fiction? he said. Maybe, she said. Will it have room for, you know, love & stuff? he said. Always, she said. OK then, he said.

My career in Congress is a story of before Sandy Hook and after Sandy Hook.

I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.

I have been a man of great sins, but He has been a God of great mercies; and now, through His mercies, I have a conscience as sound and quiet as if I had never sinned.

For those who are awake, the Cosmos is One.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

Failure makes excuses. Success just keeps swinging the bat.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.