Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals.

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.

Unconditional love and forgiveness are the sources of eternal happiness.

If (Declan) Kidney had gone for religion instead of teaching, he would have been Pope.

Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

My significance is found in pointing to Someone far more significant.

He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.

I'd like to be clear that a number of people find me intolerable, and they don't hesitate to say so - which they and I cherish.

That's what I like about you, senator, you're kicking it old-school.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

I know what I am fighting for. I am fighting for the most basic rights of innocent children. And that is why I never take the criticism too deep under my skin.