When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.

A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.

A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into fearlessness, and hatred into love.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.

My heart is lost

If a song's meant to stay around, you carry it with you in your bones.

Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

The House of Lords is like a glass of champagne that has stood for five days

A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.

The worst derangement of the spirit is to believe things because we want them to be so, not because we have seen them for what they are.

The biggest lesson I learned in the bar business is to focus on revenues. Dollars, not dimes.

I've been short all my life. And if anyone wonders what my dying wish will be, they can stop wondering. That will be easy. I'll just tell them, 'I'll have a short bier.'

Thanks to the Japanese and Geronimo, John Wayne became a millionaire.

Our thoughts determine our age.