Each of us is born with an incorruptible spot of grace.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even when clouds grow thick, the sun still pours its light earthward.

The key to knowing joy is being easily pleased.

When we heal ourselves, we heal the world.

The real & lasting practice for each of us is to remove what obstructs us so we can be who we are.

To journey without being changed, is to be a nomad. To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. To journey and to be transformed by the journeying is to be a pilgrim.

Tragedy stays alive by feeling what's been done to us, while peace comes alive by living with the results.

…I keep looking for one more teacher, only to find that fish learn from the water and birds learn from the sky.” (p.275)

Each of us carries some wisdom waiting to be discovered at the center of our experience. Everything we meet, if faced and held, reveals a part of that wisdom.

You can cover the wrinkles of age by becoming more cheerful and enthusiastic.

One of the golden rules of success is to treat everything like a competition.

Every question leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions.

An undiscovered genius has no value in the marketplace

Equality is not in regarding different things similarly, equality is in regarding different things differently.

We need a continuing presence in space.

Five years ago, I wasn't getting questions [about blogs and the internet] from the TV/radio critic of the New York Times.

If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.

I'm not in show business; I'm in the communications business. That's what it's about for me.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?