Whether one is remaining alert (mindfulness), focusing on a single thought or phrase (mantra), or mentally exploring ones inner world (visualization), all are one form of concentration or another.

We all want results and we want them fast. But, when practicing meditation, impatience is a hindrance.

The moments of peace in between the mental practices are meditation.

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.

The building blocks of meditation are relaxation and concentration. If you cannot relax, you cannot meditate. If you cannot concentrate, you cannot meditate. No exceptions.

Meditation is… a state that can best be described as deep dreamless sleep while awake.

I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.

Your past and your pain will certainly impact you, but they don’t have to define you. You get to write your own definition.

Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

I would love to do a sweeping romantic period drama, like Jane Eyre. That would be my dream. It's always been my dream, as far as acting.

The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

In America, we celebrate success. We don't apologize for success.

Ambition, like love, can abide no lingering; and ever urgeth on his own successes, hating nothing but what may stop them.

You should never be too much involved... otherwise, you suffer and you can't sing. This is what happened in the very first years I sang Madame Butterfly.

The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.