Education is a bipartisan issue that concern all communities of color and should be first, last and always about the student learning.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

You are the universe experiencing itself.

We see what we believe rather than what we see.

Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with Reality, and lives in a world of illusion.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Marriage is nothing but a commitment to care and share.

A glorious life is a spark of divinity.

Having unceasingly grateful life requires demonstrating gratitude daily whether our daily life treats us kindly or not.

The clock moves on and hours pass too quickly

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

Often faith isn't hoping that good times are coming; it's trying to see that the good times are here.

Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.

It's been a pattern in my life - when I get in trouble, I try to get out of it, since I was little.

The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life.