Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.

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.

We can't make up for lost time, but we can make room to share space.

I have deep feelings of depression... What can I do about this?''Snap out of it! Five cents, please.

If you look into the face of evil, evil's gonna look right back at you

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

Real ability is the child of God-given talent and rock solid diligence. Nobody maintains ability without hard work. Nobody.

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see.

So long as we govern our nation by the letter and spirit of the Bill of Rights, we can be sure that our nation will grow in strength and wisdom and freedom.

The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?

It is nice when people recognize me and approach me in the street. Anyone who says they don't like that is lying.