By becoming intimate with how we close down and how we open up, we awaken our unlimited potential.

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.

It was so hard to feel safe in the world when you were a girl.

The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never look back and never look ahead.

Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.

It is the thirtieth of May, the thirtieth of November, a beginning or an end, we are moving into the solstice and there is so much here I still do not understand.

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.

If we do our jobs well and throw in a little evangelizing, we can make sound as important a part of filmmaking as it should be.

In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means.

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

It is a belief in human potential that has guided me through my time in Government.

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.