Artistic vision comes from a mind clear enough to fall in love with what we see.

The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.

To be a spiritual warrior, one must have a broken heart; without a broken heart and the sense of tenderness and vulnerability, your warriorship is untrustworthy.

In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.

Gentle day's flower - The hummingbird competes With the stillness of the air.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

I hope my forgiveness reminds you, Of the part you forgot to break in me.

My heart only knows love.

People ask whether there is Hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell!

And she had been in love enough times to rule out the possibility that this was merely some feat of nostalgia.

I've spent a long time giving people the benefit of the doubt, and I'm tired of it.

I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

I have not laughed since I married.

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

Carry laughter with you wherever you go.